Claims Development For COVID

The latest Out Front Ideas With Kimberly and Mark webinar brought together a panel of industry experts to explore current trends being seen in COVID-19 claims, as well as long-term medical complications and what risk managers should be monitoring in the future. Our guests were:

Teresa Bartlett, MD – senior medical officer, Sedgwick
Max Koonce – chief claims officer, Sedgwick
Tim Stanger – vice president – partner relations, Safety National
Alex Swedlow – president, California Workers’ Compensation Institute

One of the most significant challenges in analyzing workers’ compensation data is that a single data source that collects and analyzes all the data does not exist. Data is currently provided through multiple sources such as the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), independent bureaus, monopolistic jurisdictions and self-insured employers.