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.

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.

It is a common and sometimes justifiable concern for some employees around the nation. They worry that if they file a workers’ compensation claim they will be fired by their employer.

When someone gets hurt on the job, the workers’ compensation system is often adept at zeroing in on an injury and delivering timely care. But that well-intentioned focus on a patient’s physical bruises can make it easy to miss the mental ones, which might be harder to spot.

Zurich North America has announced that it is utilizing Jopari Solutions’ eBill platform to expand its capabilities and support receipt of electronic medical bills for workers’ compensation claims in all states.

Last November the residents of California told the state, by a fairly substantial margin, to keep their labor employment law mittens off of rideshare gig workers. Proposition 22, designed to ‘define app-based transportation (rideshare) and delivery drivers as independent contractors and adopt labor and wage policies specific to app-based drivers and companies,’ passed with a 58.6% to 41.4% vote.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic upended their lives, workers were experiencing all kinds of disruption. Industries from tech to insurance were focused on innovation, and employees were hit with endless change and high expectations.