Rising Medical Solutions released its annual Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study for 2020, with a twist. This year’s study is the first time claims leaders have had the opportunity to respond directly to the perspectives of more than 1,200 frontline claims professionals who participated in the 2019 survey.

Updated data from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute and the Division of Workers Compensation reports COVID-19 death claims have risen 51% since the last update in February.

If there’s one title Lee Garvin wears proudly, it’s ‘crew member.’ Before stepping into the role of director of risk management at JetBlue Airways, Garvin worked as a pilot, flying on-demand charter planes, organ donor flights and scheduled air service for seven years.

In an interesting case out of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, Lehigh Specialty Melting Inc. v. Workers Compensation Appeal Board, Lehigh appealed an order of the state’s Workers Compensation Appeal Board that would have caused the unwinding of an otherwise finalized workers’ compensation settlement agreement that included a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)-approved Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) with an injured worker.

Even though the pandemic is far from over, risk managers and insurance professionals have already started accumulating best practices for handling large numbers of communicable disease workers’ compensation claims.

A new University of Missouri study confirmed that sleep disorders elevate crash risk in drivers, especially workers with shift worker sleep disorder (SWSD) who were almost three times more likely to crash than other drivers.

On May 26, 2021, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) became yet another landmark in the U.S. representing violence and despair.

Saturday afternoon’s tour bus crash on the New York State Thruway prompted a regional emergency response from Central New York hospitals, medical officials said Sunday.

After years of litigation and massive jury verdicts, three firms are eyeing an end to lawsuits over their role in the opioid epidemic.

A sightseeing plane crashed Thursday in southeast Alaska, killing all six people on board, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Long-time readers will know of my almost decade-long campaign to rebrand the workers’ comp industry. I have long believed that people entering the workers’ compensation system for the first time focus on the wrong things as it relates to their case.

Mental health disorders have emerged as a potentially significant factor in workers’ compensation.

Five tons of acetic acid leaked at a Texas plant Tuesday, leaving two people dead and 30 more injured, officials say.

After a year of immense change, the United States continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid crisis. A continued interest in using marijuana as a substitute for opioids in the treatment of chronic pain has prompted many states to legalize the drug for medical purposes with several also legalizing for recreational purposes.

Employer defendants in more than half of the COVID-19 injury or wrongful death lawsuits being tracked by the National Council on Compensation Insurance argue that the workers compensation exclusive remedy provisions in state laws bar such litigation.