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Who Pays for Adaptive Housing?

If an injured worker becomes wheelchair-bound, the issue often arises as to whether and to what extent the employer is obligated to provide wheelchair accessible, handicapped adaptive housing. Two cases in North Carolina illustrate the dilemma. Read More 

CMS Is Here to Help With WCMSAs

We're hearing about it more and more -- Medicare denying payment of a medical bill for services connected to a workers' compensation claim where Medicare is the secondary payer. CMS has a solution, with a new Self-Administration Toolkit for Workers' Compensation Medicare Set Aside Arrangements. Read More  

Florida Workers' Compensation Case Law Update: August

In its August issue of "MKRS Law's Case Law Updates," the firm reviews Emerita O. Flores-Orellana v. Circle-K and Constitution State Services and Walter Vega v. FRS Environmental Remediators and Accord Human Resources/Risk Enterprise Management. Read More 

Delays in Virginia

In Virginia, some employees, lawyers, and even the former head of Virginia's workers' compensation system, say the injured worker's "safety net" is pockmarked with cavernous holes. The result is a system where restitution and care can elude claimants for months, even years. Read More

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Long-lasting Protection for Temporary Workers

The California Legislature has passed a bill that would hold companies legally responsible if the temp agencies and subcontractors they hire cheat workers out of their wages or put them in harm's way. Read More

Risk Management Goes to College

How do you teach a college freshman -- whose total exposure to "risk management" has probably come from a few fender benders -- that the corporate risk management world is a "happening" place to be? Read More

Florida Work Comp Law Challenged in Court: An Analysis

It was big news when a circuit court judge held that a major section of Florida's Workers' Compensation Law was unconstitutional. But what does it mean for practical purposes? Read More

WCI Briefs

We know you're busy. So to save you time, here's a sampling of workers' compensation and insurance news from around the globe, each in 400 words or less. Read More

What's Your Germ Personality?

Are you a "Fearful Fanatic" or a "Proud Exterminator?" This quiz can tell you where you stand on the germaphobe spectrum. Read More