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Fresh health policy wonkery at HealthBlawg

Posted on March 20, 2009
Visit the "spring has nearly sprung" edition of Health Wonk Review at David Harlow's HealthBlawg - it's an eclectic issue covering posts on health reform, prescription drugs, how social media is reshaping health care, medical tourism, technology, and more...

The Delicate Brain

Posted on March 19, 2009
Our guest blogger is colleague Peter Rousmaniere, a columnist for Risk & Insurance magazine and blogger on the immigrant workforce. Beginning with the sudden and unexpected death of actress Natasha Richardson, Peter explores the murky issue of brain injuries, where what appears to be minor may suddenly morph in to a life-threatening - indeed, life ending - catastrophe...

Shift Work and Breast Cancer: A Presumptive Link?

Posted on March 18, 2009
Marcellus, a character in Shakespeare's Hamlet, muses that there is "something rotten in the state of Denmark." To the contrary, there is a spirit of generosity in Denmark that is increasingly rare in this troubled world. We are dealing here with the issue of compensability of cancers that may or may not be work related...

New day for OSHA?

Posted on March 17, 2009
Labor leaders and business leaders are in agreement that the new administration will mean a more activist OSHA, with more targeted investigations and tougher penalties for hiding workplace injuries. Some predict that there will be an increase in standards - although that shouldn't be a tough record to beat since there was only one standard issued under the Bush administration...

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AIG: Failure's Fat Rewards

Posted on March 16, 2009
We continue to be amazed at the ongoing saga of AIG. We learn in Sunday's New York Times that 400 employees of the financial products unit (yes, the geniuses who destroyed the company) are receiving bonuses ranging from $1,000 (the hard-working and relatively innocent) to $6...

Cavalcade of Risk and Quick News Takes

Posted on March 12, 2009
Jason Shafrin of Healthcare Economist hosts this week's great edition of Cavalcade of Risk, and he precedes it with a Surgeon General's warning about possible side effects that might ensue from use of this product. Given that we are living in "interesting times," there is no shortage of good risk reading...

Collapsing Empires at the Hedge Fund Hotel

Posted on March 11, 2009
I have a few shares of AIG stock, which is currently trading at 35 cents a share. I do not like to dwell on the pathetic disappearance of this particular asset, so it's an opportune time to seek comfort in history. This is not the first collapse of a financial empire, nor will it be the last...

The effect of obesity and other comorbidities on workers comp

Posted on March 10, 2009
Historically, the tendency has been for employers to segment potential employee health and disability issues into two discrete silos: occupational safety, prevention, and other issues related to workers comp are most often managed by risk managers and safety staff...

Health Wonk Review, economic stimulus & insurance, AIG, and choosing MDs for quality

Posted on March 05, 2009

Taneka's Law

Posted on March 04, 2009

Title Dis-Insurance?

Posted on March 03, 2009

News Roundup: Cavalcade of Risk, good Samaritan update, Florida Murray decision follow-on, California fraud; more

Posted on March 02, 2009

School Board Needs History Lesson

Posted on February 24, 2009
Audeen Jacobs was a teacher in the Clark County (Kentucky) school system. She retired in June 2003, but was hired back on a 100 day contract in the fall of that same year. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she volunteered to sponsor the high school's Beta Club, an honor society that requires students to maintain a specific grade point...

McDonald's: Heroes Need Not Apply

Posted on February 23, 2009
Perry Kennon, a thug with a long record, experienced a craving for a Big Mac, so he accompanied a lady friend to a McDonald's in Little Rock, Arkansas. ["I'm lovin' it!"] His lady said something he disapproved of, so he smacked her in the face. McDonald employee Nigel Haskett, 21 at the time, rushed at Kennon and pushed him out...

The Ventless Vent

Posted on February 20, 2009
When is a vent not a vent? When it doesn't vent. Here is a toxic conundrum for a Friday, from our neighbors to the north in Vancouver. Appropriate material, perhaps, for the 1,000th Insider entry. For two years Jim Mulally worked as an attendant in an underground parking garage...

Health Wonk Review: The Anti-Spam Edition

Posted on February 19, 2009
You've heard about a spoonful of sugar making the medicine go down, but how about Spam as a substitute? It's Health Wonk Review day, and Hank Stern of InsureBlog offers us Health Wonk Review: The Anti-Spam Edition - replete with recipes. Posts range from commentary on the Stimulus package and health reform initiatives to a list of top 50 Medical...

Economic indicators: insurance industry update

Posted on February 18, 2009
How has AIG been doing since their big government bailout five months ago? Ieva M. Augustums of Associated Press offers an update: Q: How much has AIG paid back? A: In October, AIG said it would sell off a number of business units to repay the initial $85 billion Fed loan...

Pain as a Variable of Coverage

Posted on February 17, 2009
Dr. Scott Haig, an orthopedic surgeon, has a thought-provoking article in Time Magazine on returning to work after surgery. As those of us involved in workers comp know all too well, returning to productive employment is not simply a matter of healing...

Prying the Cell Phone from Your Cold, Dead Hands?

Posted on February 12, 2009
The National Safety Council, surely a credible safety organization, has come out for a total ban on cell phone use while driving. The council points to increasing evidence that the distraction of cell phone use - with or without headphones - is a major cause of accidents...

Cavalcade of Risk Issue #71

Posted on February 11, 2009
We're pleased to host issue #71 of Cavalcade of Risk here in our humble corner of the web. While risk is ubiquitous, in the current economic climate, times seem even more perilous - particularly when looking at charts for historical job losses during recessions...

Annals of Compensability: Arthur Pierce's Work-Related Fall

Posted on February 10, 2009
Arthur Pierce worked for a trucking company in Virginia. In September 2006 he was found lying beside his dump truck. He had suffered a severe brain injury and was unable to communicate any details about what had happened. Physicians speculated that he had fallen from the truck (falls are the number one cause of injuries to drivers), but there was...

News roundup: Letters of credit, nuclear workers, NY construction, collaborative whiteboard, and more

Posted on February 09, 2009
Another side effect of the bad economy - Roberto Ceniceros of Business Insurance points to another side effect of the credit crunch - higher collateral costs for many self insureds, particularly those in financially challenged industries, who are scrambling to secure alternatives to their letters of Credit (LOC)...

Comp as Enabler: The Nadya Suleman Story

Posted on February 06, 2009
Nadya Suleman recently gave birth to octuplets, six boys and two girls. These newborns join the six other children that were also conceived through in-vitro fertilization. Suleman is a single mother of 14 young children, living at home with her (distressed?) parents...

Health Wonk Review & news from the insurance fraud front

Posted on February 05, 2009
Awaiting your perusal, this week's edition of Health Wonk Review. David Williams of Health Business Blog has compiled the best health policy wonkery from the creme de la creme of the health policy blogs. A preview of this week's fare to whet your appetite: Pharma's foibles; Less is more; The profit motive; The wonky section; Navel gazin?; The odd couple;...

Big Holes in the Comp Safety Net

Posted on February 04, 2009
We know how James Strickland died. Strickland worked for Bay Area Regional Transit (BART) in San Francisco. On October 14, he was walking east on the westbound track, checking for safety problems. An eastbound train, traveling 70 mph, slammed into him...

Social networking for the safety community

Posted on February 03, 2009
You'd have to be living under a rock to be oblivious to the revolution that is online social networking - blogging (hey, that's us!); networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn; social bookmarking services like delicious.com or Stumble Upon; photo sharing sites such as Flickr; video sharing sites like YouTube; microblogging and texting, such as Twitter; and Google mashups...

Wyoming Workers Comp: Frontier Justice?

Posted on February 02, 2009
Cody, Wyoming, was founded in part by "Buffalo Bill" Cody, the renowned slaughterer of buffalo. The town bills itself as the eastern gateway to Yellowstone National Park. "A small western town with a big city attitude." Sally Spooner, a long-time school teacher in the town, might question the "big city attitude...

Annals of Accident Investigation: The Eyes Have It?

Posted on January 29, 2009
Clyde Stroman, 53, of Elmira, NY, worked as a youth aide at the MacCormick Secure Center in Brooktondale, NY. He worked with some pretty tough kids. While restraining a "client" back in August 2008, Stroman injured his right eye. If you were his supervisor, filling out the incident report, you should write: "Injury to right eye...

Cavalcade of Risk #70 and other news of note

Posted on January 28, 2009
Our friend David Williams is the host of this week's Cavalcade of Risk at Health Business Blog - check it out. And while visiting David's neighborhood, you might want to read an interesting recent guest post by Dr. Michael Ozner about The Great American Heart Hoax: Economic and Political Implications...

The Politics of Work-Related Illness

Posted on January 26, 2009
Ed Abney is 53 year old tool-and-die worker with Parkinson's disease. For over 20 years, he was literally up to his elbows in drums of the powerful solvent, trichloroethylene (TCE). He worked for the now defunct Dresser Industries in Kentucky. As we read in Felicity Barringer's excellent article in the New York Times, Abney's illness was probably caused by work,...

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