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A WCEC Session Preview: Breakout on Medical Issues

With a title like "I Have Heart Failure, But I'm Still Alive," for one of the sessions, there should be big crowds at the Breakout on Medical Issues on Wednesday, August 20, at the Workers' Compensation Educational Conference. Read More

Claims Management Best Practices

The key to getting your workers' compensation claims program to a point that is both manageable and actionable (meaning that you can make changes and actually see results) is fairly simple if you compartmentalize your program and attack one area at a time.These 10 Best Practices can help. Read More

NCCI: Workers' Compensation Claim Frequency-2014 Update

The downward trend in workers' compensation lost-time claim frequency continues, albeit modestly. A new report from NCCI says that preliminary estimates show a two percent decline in lost-time claim frequency in Accident Year 2013. Read More 

Ex-worker Sues New Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Board

Oklahoma's Workers' Compensation Board became operational on February 1. The board soon fired 16 workers from the previous agency. Angela Sanders, one of those fired, has sued the commission, alleging that she was fired the day she returned following surgery for a work-related injury. Read More

SB 863 Workers' Compensation Reforms Show Progress, Challenges

In a new report, the California Division of Workers' Compensation tells us what's working and not working in the massive reform package passed in 2012. Read More

Calling Your Way to Better Health

Researchers say that telecare management (yep, phone calls) from medical personnel to people suffering from chronic musculoskeletal pain "produced clinically meaningful improvements." Read More

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Caution: Hiring Independent Contractors in Other Countries

Think the laws and regulations regarding classification of independent contractors are extensive and sometimes murky here in the United State? Things can quickly become even more complicated if your company seeks to hire independent contractors outside the U.S. borders. Read More

Illegal Immigrants and Workers' Compensation

Will renewed calls to ban workers' compensation benefits for illegal immigrants follow the rising immigration worries? Here's some background on the issue along with insight into what Industry association leaders think. Read More

Kentucky Nurse Practitioners Gain Flexibility in Prescribing Medications

It took five years of legislative debate, but nurse practitioners in Kentucky who have completed a four-year collaboration with a physician can now prescribe routine medications without a doctor's involvement. 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 350 words or less. Read More