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Imperial Sugar Refinery report: routine housekeeping might have prevented explosion
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A year and a half after the Imperial Sugar combustible dust explosion, the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) issued its final report on the explosion, which killed 14 workers and injured 36 others, leaving some with permanent, life-altering conditions. In short, the CSB found inadequate housekeeping and maintenance, largely preventable conditions. In addition, CSB found inadequate emergency evacuation plans. The linked...
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New Health Wonk Review posted; other noteworthy news
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For another biweekly issue of the best of the health policy blogs, Brady Augustine hosts The Boys (and Girls) of October edition of Health Wonk Review at medicaidfirstaid. Get a little baseball nostalgia with your health policy. For our neighbors in the Boston area, Brady recalls the era of Carlton Fisk, Carl Yastrzemski, Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, and Luis Tiant....
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The AIG Saga, Revisited: Gang Wars in Three Piece Suits
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AIG may have lost a bit of its swagger - that's what happens when your stock tanks and the government has to bail you out to the tune of $150 billion, give or take a few billion. But tough guys don't dance, they fight back. AIG is suing NCCI and a host of major workers comp carriers (Travelers, The Hartford,...
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Annals of Health: Why Smokers Cannot Quit
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In all of our discussions about controlling the cost of workers comp, we continually come up against two lifestyle issues that have a direct impact on costs: obesity and smoking. Let's leave obesity for another day and focus on smoking. According to a compelling article by Stephen Smith in the Boston Globe, 70 percent of smokers want to stop, but...
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9-11 Workers Compensation - Report on 45,000 World Trade Center Cases
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In September, the New York State Workers' Compensation Board released a 59-page report on World Trade Center Cases in the New York Workers' Compensation System (PDF), along with a reminder that the clock is ticking for rescue and clean-up workers to register service. The registration deadline is September 11, 2010. Registering puts a stake in the ground to preserve the...
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This week's assorted news briefs
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Spotlight on Rating Agencies - Claire Wilkinson of Insurance Information Institute's blog posts on a public hearing to be held by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) tomorrow. Insurance Execs Not Confident of Underwriting Profit Over Next 3 Years - results of annual survey conducted by KPMG Obese Workers' Comp Claims Far Exceed Slimmer Employee Costs - report on...
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Not-So-Good Housekeeping
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Lucine Williams, 41, worked as a housekeeper for the Hyatt hotel chain in Boston for over 20 years. She earned $15.32 an hour, plus a fairly robust benefit package that included health, dental and a 401(k). That's where Katie Johnson Chases's story begins in the Boston Globe, but it hardly ends there. Last month Ms. Williams and her co-workers were...
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Fresh Health Wonk Review and assorted news briefs from around the web
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Hot of the presses, a freshly baked edition of Health Wonk Review posted by Rich Elmore of Healthcare Technology News. There's some really good commentary by some really smart people - including reactions to Obama's speech last week. Getting results from managed care - Joe Paduda posts a list of questions for your work comp managed care vendors over at...
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Annals of Dress Codes: With That Ring, I thee Fire!
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Hawwah Santiago was a "sandwich artist" at a Subway restaurant in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She was fired after refusing to remove her nose ring while at work. Visible body piercings (other than earrings) violated the company dress code. Ms. Santiago sued, claiming that the nose ring was a practice of her Nuwaibian religion. The Nuwaibians, based in Eatonton GA,...
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Oklahoma: OK!
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The Insider just returned from a speaking engagement in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The occasion was the annual workers comp conference sponsored by the judiciary that manages comp in the state. I was invited by fellow blogger Judge Tom Leonard, whose blog provides valuable information to comp practitioners in the state. As a relatively high-cost state, Oklahoma is experiencing rumblings in the...
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More on the work comp-financed weight loss surgery ruling
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Charles Wilson of AP has written an article about the Indiana court ruling which determined that Boston's The Gourmet Pizza must pay for an employee's weight loss surgery under workers comp. For the article, Wilson spoke with attorneys representing both sides of the issue, as well as our own Tom Lynch for the workers comp perspective. The so-called "lifestyle illnesses"...
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