Injured workers often feel lost in the complex workers' compensation benefit delivery systems. Difficult to understand, these systems leave injured workers confused, disbelieved and disrespected, which feeds a sense of hopelessness and abandonment. This can potentially contribute to the development or instigation of chronic pain perceptions and a poor outcome.

Inflation, supply chain issues, increased catastrophic losses from climate change, and higher and higher nuclear verdicts mean that insurance carriers are facing higher loss costs and loss ratios to their premium dollar.

Susan Shemanski leads a team responsible for managing the safety of 70,000 workers across 6,000 U.S. job sites. Fatigue is perhaps the most pressing worker health issues on her mind, and one she emphasized at this year's RISKWORLD in Atlanta during her session, 'The Future of Workplace Safety: A Case Study.'

One week before their May 1st presentation at RIMS' 2023 RISKWORLD event in Atlanta, Ike Jenkins and Marc Vincent updated their slides with the latest figures on U.S. mass shootings. By the time they'd checked into their hotels, the figures were already outdated.

The six states where courts or legislatures have said insurers must reimburse for medical marijuana for injured workers have yet to provide guidance on how to do so, putting payers in the position of not being able to use the federal banking system to cover costs for a federally illegal substance.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the use of drugs or alcohol at work significantly increases the the risk of workplace accidents. With this in mind, sooner or later every major employer will inevitably need to address a workers' compensation claim involving some kind of intoxication.

Claimant fraud and premium fraud are two of the most well-known types of workers compensation fraud. In these cases, a worker may intentionally fake an injury (claimant fraud) or a business owner may misrepresent their employee headcount or incorrectly classify employees to obtain lower insurance premiums. Now, a lesser-known type is occurring with greater frequency: provider fraud.

Medicare's federal funds assist in covering a wide range of healthcare costs for adults age 65 and older, as well as for younger persons with specific needs and applicable benefits.

Mental illness touches the lives of many in our society, whether personally or through a friend, family member or colleague. Data from the Center for Disease Control shows that one in five Americans will experience a mental illness during a given year.

After years of tightening limits, new federal guidelines are giving doctors greater leeway in prescribing opioids. Unveiled in November by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the voluntary guidelines update more restrictive advice issued in 2016 -- advice that triggered a regulatory crackdown on opioids at the state and federal level.

Four more people have been found dead following a chocolate factory explosion in West Reading, Pennsylvania, last week, raising the death toll to seven, officials said Sunday night. All previously missing persons had been accounted for as of Sunday night.

A Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) is a financial agreement that reserves a portion of a workers' compensation settlement to cover future treatment and prescription costs of an injury, illness, or disease.

Since 2014, the percentage of indemnity claims involving a major surgery in the first two years has declined one percentage point per year, falling from 28% of the 2014 claims to 23% of the 2019 claims, according to a study released Monday by the California Workers' Compensation Institute.

Long COVID is an on-going, worrying and costly illness affecting workers and the workplace even as some people question if it is real.

The old adage 'You can't judge a book by its cover' may be true when it comes to reading the latest novel from your favorite author, but when it comes to independent medical examinations (IME), the cover letter means everything.