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It is one thing when an employee slips and sprains an ankle - but what would your company do if that employee was in the deepest part of the Amazon basin - you know, with, like, SNAKES!? Smart businesses hire third-party medical teams to manage remote location projects.
Advisen and Workers Comp Resource Center have combined to produce a $159 guidebook to help brokers, consultants, safety & loss control professionals, claims managers and buyers of insurance reduce Workers Compensation costs by 20% to 50%. This 150-page manual shows you how to assess your Workers Compensation program, design program materials, roll-out a program to the organization, and monitor and manage the program once implemented.
The insurance company claims office, the third party administrator claims office, and the in-house claims office of the self-insured employer are the three most common types of workers compensation claim offices.
Pain, real or perceived, is a key barrier and among the most difficult of workers compensation claims to resolve. Pain can originate from the injury or from surgical intervention/treatment.
Claims work involves a lot of give and take - especially true when negotiating claims to settlement, whether in litigation or not. Even experienced adjusters make common negotiating mistakes.
Often an employer may assume the designated adjuster(s) working on the workers compensation files is a good adjuster. But, you know what "they" say about "assuming." Grade your adjuster using these quick techniques.
Work Comp Roundup continues to provide a compendium of legal updates from Lexis Nexis representing many states. Here is information from Delaware, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and North Dakota.
The use of social media to fight workers comp fraud is beginning to catch on when plaintiff attorneys start warning clients about social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and MySpace.
A former California firework wholesaler office manager was sentenced to two years in prison for stealing more than $146,000 from his employer by claiming the money was to obtain city firework sale booth permits.
A manufacturer of titanium and zirconium alloy compacts used in the aluminum manufacturing industry, was cited by OSHA for exposing workers to workplace safety and health hazards following an explosion and fire killing three company employees.
A North Carolina Court of Appeals opinion analyzed issues of medical causation and liability in the state's workers comp cases. The case involved injuries sustained by a worker who fell through a ceiling suspended more than 10 feet above a concrete floor.
Bill 168, amending Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act with respect to violence and harassment in the workplace includes a mandate for employers to introduce measures to address domestic violence as a potential source of workplace violence.
The Ontario government has introduced new legislation to eliminate any confusion among the ranks of professional firefighters that resulted from the province's prohibition of mandatory retirement policies dated six years ago.
A long-term failure to provide its employees with hot water to wash their hands after using hydrated lime (a known skin and eye irritant) in the manufacturing process, put workers at risk of contracting dermatitis, a skin condition.
A fine of £60,000 ($97,116) was levied against Westwood Yarns following the death of a worker cleaning a baling machine. The employer was also ordered to pay £20,625 ($33,383) court costs.
Federal health regulators have passed along warnings to four manufacturers of hand sanitizing products for making unsupported claims regarding the bacteria-fighting benefits of their products.
A Justice Department indictment shows three defendants conspired to coerce the agricultural labor and services of Thai nationals by fraudulently inducing the recruits to incur substantial debts secured by the workers homes and family lands.
Finding a way to press on with accident and illness health prevention during difficult economic times is the theme this year of Scotland's foremost safety event, the "RoSPA Scotland Safety and Health Forum." | 
