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weblog about workers' compensation, risk management, business insurance, workplace health & safety, occupational medicine, injured workers, insurance webtools & technology and related topics.

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Risk roundup & other news briefs

From Workers Comp Insider, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Van R. Mayhall of Insurance Regulatory Law makes his debut as host of Cavalcade of Risk with his "Meet the Experts" edition. Mayhall is an expert himself - an attorney who practices in the areas of Business & Corporate Law and Insurance Regulatory Law. We welcome his participation! Workers Comp Conference - Nancy Grover offers a sneak peek at highlights... Read more
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Are Comp Rates Finally Trending Upward'

From Workers Comp Insider, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

For over a decade, workers comp insurers have watched profit margins erode, as rates in many states continue their precipitous fall. The mismatch between premiums collected and losses paid out has reached alarming levels, with a projected combined ratio of 121.5 percent for the current year. Even in the best of times for investments, making up 21 percent against losses... Read more
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Health Wonkery and other news of note

From Workers Comp Insider, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Health Wonkery - Christopher Fleming hosts Health Wonk Review Unadorned at the Health Affairs Blog. Check out the latest from the best of the health policy bloggers. And if healthcare is of concern to you, Health Affairs should be a regular read! Bad behavior - When it comes to bad behavior, we are equal opportunity finger pointers. We've seen fraudulent... Read more
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Older Workers: How Old is Too Old'

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For 36 years Rodolfo Meza worked for Aerol Corporation in Rancho Diminguez CA as a metal worker making cast iron and aluminum molds. He was about 48 when he began working; he was about 84 when he was terminated while on medical leave for a knee operation. Rodolfo sued, claiming age discrimination, raising the question: how old is too old... Read more
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Cavlacade of Risk & other news from the blogosphere

From Workers Comp Insider, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Risk roundup - Jay and Louise Norris of Colorado Health Insurance Insider host this week's Cavalcade of Risk - it's the Colorado nature edition. Congrats to the Norrises on their 5 year blogging anniversary and 10th issue hosting the Cavalcade. Check the facts - At Comp Time, Roberto Ceniceros tells the story of an insurer relying on a newspaper's crime... Read more
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Triaging Trouble: Predictive Modeling in Claims Management

From Workers Comp Insider, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Predictive modeling has long been used in personal lines, especially auto insurance. It's only in the last 8 or 9 years that we've seen it squeezing through the workers' compensation front door in the areas of underwriting and claims administration. In this period, the major risk management consultants, TPAs and insurers have been developing sophisticated models to, in consultant-speak, "use... Read more
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Health Wonk Review & other news notes

From Workers Comp Insider, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Best of the healthcare blogosphere - Looking for your biweekly fix of health wonkery' Check out Health Wonk Review: Muppets Edition! - posted by Joe Colucci at The New Health Dialogue blog. Health Care Costs - The Kaiser Family Foundation's 2011 Employer Health Benefits Survey revealed that average annual premiums for family health benefits are up 9%, topping $15,000. According... Read more
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When your boss is a tiger

From Workers Comp Insider, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

This may not be the most useful post you will read all week, but it is likely to be among the most amusing. If you haven't yet stumbled on the infamous "Tiger Mike" memos, you are in for a treat. Edward 'Tiger Mike' Davis was the erstwhile CEO of the now defunct Houston-based Tiger Oil Company. You might expect... Read more
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Experience Modification Alert: NCCI Changing the Rules

From Workers Comp Insider, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

It's been over 20 years since NCCI changed the rules relating to the calculation of the experience modification factor. Given that experience modification determines the cost of insurance for all but self-insured employers, these changes require careful scrutiny. While some of the details have not yet been announced, one thing is clear: employers with higher-than-expected losses are likely to pay... Read more
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Annals of Compensability: Violence as a "Normal" Working Condition

From Workers Comp Insider, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Here is a very interesting case from Pennsylvania, where the definition of "normal working conditions" is fraught with terror (and which, as a result, closes the door to comp compensability while potentially opening another to lawsuits). But in our excitement to discuss this intriguing case, we get ahead of ourselves. Greg Kochanowicz worked as a manager for the Pennsylvania Liquor... Read more
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