The physical safety of employees is paramount to the operation of any workplace. Recently though, employers, claims handlers and employees themselves have increased their focus on psychological safety, what it means within the context of workplace wellbeing and managing risk.
When I graduated college last May, I didn’t think that my first post-college job would be writing about workers’ compensation. I didn’t even know what workers’ compensation was.
Mandatory injury reports Amazon submitted to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration have thus far painted a broad picture of its operations as unusually dangerous, well above the warehousing industry average.
What story is your data telling you? Even the most tech savvy risk professionals may cringe when you use words like metrics, analytics or the phrase, “What are our biggest cost drivers?”
For every workers’ compensation injury, there are probably dozens of ways that injury could unexpectedly spiral out of control, compromising a worker’s recovery and dramatically hiking up costs.
A study conducted by researchers at Temple University has produced some surprising statistics. It seems to suggest that “medical marijuana may lead to fewer workers’ compensation claims.”
The chief executive of a global claims administration firm is calling on workers’ compensation insurers to start holding doctors to account for what he describes as the “defined delta” between workers’ compensation claims and private health or non-occupational disability claims.
A bill we first discussed a few months ago appears to be advancing through the Colorado legislature that would grant workers’ compensation mental health benefits to Emergency Center Dispatchers. While the effort to include 911 dispatchers into the growing world of special protections for first responders is actually going on nationwide, Colorado seems to be one of the few early adopters codifying it into law.
The Rising 2019 Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Survey explored the experiences of frontline claims professionals for the first time. Few people know more about the state of workers’ compensation today than boots-on-the-ground claims professionals.
Collaborative robots aren’t just invading fast-food restaurants and warehouses. They will also take work from lawyers and underwriters. Recent developments in robotics and artificial intelligence have changed the playing field for automated technologies.
One Texas oil worker was killed and three others hospitalized on Wednesday when a Chesapeake Energy Corp well caught fire during service work, a spokesman for the company said.
CBD products have exploded since 2018 when the Agricultural Improvement Act removed hemp-derived CBD from the list of Schedule I drugs. Everything from CBD infused beers to gummy bears that claim to use the drug to help battle insomnia have hit the market.
Workers’ compensation insurance is a critical coverage that protects businesses and their workforce by providing benefits to employees who are injured on the job. However, there are situations when employees are injured at work, but they are not covered under the workers’ compensation statute.
History provides interesting insights into the debate around automation and employment. In 1632, King Charles I of England banned casting of buckets, for fear that allowing it would ruin the livelihood of the craftsmen who were making the buckets the old-fashioned way.
