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A WCEC Session Preview: 5-Hour Law, Ethics Update for Adjusters

New this year at the 69th annual Workers' Compensation Educational Conference is a one-stop opportunity to sharpen the tools in the claims defense tool box while meeting new state requirements that adjuster CEUs be procured through a 5-Hour Law and Ethics Update. Read More

Travel 'Intrinsic' to Oil Field Work

The Kansas Supreme Court has reversed a state appeals court ruling that denied workers' compensation benefits to an oil field worker who was injured while riding home from his workplace. Read More

Grading the Work Comp Doctor

Managed care has succeeded in corralling medical prices, but has it also been successful in ensuring quality of care? Who knows? TPAs and network providers have difficulty evaluating doctors in some regions due to lack of data. Read More

Fear of Being Fired Among Predictors of Workers' Compensation Outcomes

A news WCRI study has identified anxiety over being fired and other new predictors of worker outcomes that can help public officials, payers and health care providers improve the treatment and communication an injured worker receives after an injury. Read More

Baby's Death Linked to Alleged Workers' Compensation Scheme

A massive workers' compensation fraud scheme in California has gotten deadly. A 5-month-old baby is dead after coming into contact with a specialized skin cream the doctor involved in the fraud prescribed to the child's mother. Read More

Post-Traumatic Headache: Clinical Caveats and Challenges

Often, injured persons will seek medical care following traumatic injuries only to be diagnosed with "post-traumatic headache" (PTHA). However, it is important to realize that PTHA is ultimately a symptom and not a diagnosis. Read More    

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Cumulative Trauma in Work Comp

Although repetitive, or "cumulative" trauma, may very well be without any scientific validity, this has not stopped the Commonwealth of Kentucky from finding these allegations compensable. Recent developments, however, may lessen the impact of this class of claims. Read More

WCI Briefs

We know you're busy. That's why we created WCI Briefs, a collection of workers' compensation and insurance news from across the nation and around the world. Each of these articles tells its story in 300 words or less. Read More