Over a year since the first shut down, and the windy road to a pre-pandemic world remains bumpy. For employers, this means responding to yet another COVID-19 occupational health concern arising from long-haul COVID-19 symptoms.

The New Jersey Supreme Court just issued a decision that requires insurers and employers to reimburse injured workers for the use of medical marijuana. In the case, lawyers for an employer argued that reimbursing for medical marijuana would in effect be 'aiding and abetting and conspiracy liability under federal law.'

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of medical cannabis patients Tuesday, voting unanimously that a construction company must pay for an injured employee's medical cannabis bills.

It is Spring across the nation. The season's many familiar rituals, like flowers in the field, are in full bloom. Foliage is turning green, birds are singing, bees are humming, and State Legislatures are getting down to the task once again of 'fixing' their workers' comp system.

Six people were rescued near the coast of Louisiana after a commercial boat capsized about eight miles off Port Fourchon on the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard said late Tuesday.

National Comp - the National Workers' Compensation and Disability Conference - is back! After a year of challenges and uncertainties, what we know for sure sure is that National Comp is the place to be this October in Las Vegas.

Eight people were hurt and one person is unaccounted for after an explosion and second-alarm fire at an Ohio paint plant early Thursday.

The classic 'don't buy the psych claim' mentality isn't entirely a thing of the past, but one could argue that it's moot.

The COVID-19 pandemic is nearing the one-year mark in the United States, and as we learn more about the virus's assault on the respiratory system, a new threat with potentially devastating effects on workers' compensation payers has emerged.

In the past five years, terms such as advocacy, engagement, coaching, and even 'whole-person approach' have been widely discussed within workers' compensation - for good reason.

Ever since COVID-19 made the jump from a fast-spreading virus to a full-blown pandemic, businesses and their insurers have been bracing for liability litigation.

What happens when a key data source becomes less available, reducing carriers' ability to evaluate risk? This has happened during the pandemic in workers' compensation.

In workers' compensation, OSHA is one of the top data sources that underwriters use. In particular, underwriters will look at OSHA inspections and violations to measure some aspects of the risk.

The U.S. health care system is comprised of many independent silos - primary care physicians, specialists, hospitals, pharmacies, labs and more.

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

Workplace-related hearing loss is a common issue, especially as our world gets noisier.