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Health Wonk Review is posted

Posted on January 22, 2009
Fun! Jaan Sidorov has posted a fun and creative Post Inaugural Health Wonk Review Celebration Event at Disease Management Care Blog, where he adds a little music to the wonkery. It's a fun edition, but with lots of substance, too....

Noteworthy blog discoveries

Posted on January 21, 2009
Ah, we remember the good old days just a few short years ago when the insurance blog landscape was barren and lonely. Now, we are delighted to see a profusion of insurance related blogs, with new entries cropping up every month. Here are a few recent discoveries that we've found noteworthy...

Grace Under Pressure

Posted on January 20, 2009
When a flock of geese flew into two engines of US Airways Flight 1549 last Friday, pilot Chesley Sullenberger was confronted with a set of circumstances he had never seen before. Sure, the flight simulators may have thrown a similar scenario at him, but this was real: he had a plane loaded with 155 passengers and a crew of six...

Drunk at Work in Peru

Posted on January 15, 2009
Now that Robert Aurbach's compelling discussion of bankruptcy has concluded, we thought readers might enjoy a quick look at an issue that none of us can do anything about: drunken workers in Peru. Peru's top court has ruled that workers cannot be fired simply for being drunk on the job...

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Bankruptcy and Workers' Compensation: A Silver-Plated Bullet

Posted on January 14, 2009
Part three of a three-part guest post series on bankruptcy and workers compensation by Robert Aurbach, CEO of Uncommon Approach.. Part 1: Bankruptcy and Workers' Compensation: Broken Promises, Broken Lives Part 2: Reducing the Conflict Between Bankruptcy and Workers' Compensation Three changes are proposed to the Federal Bankruptcy Code: changing the accrual of workers' compensation claims for bankruptcy purposesallowing them...

Reducing the Conflict Between Bankruptcy and Workers' Compensation

Posted on January 13, 2009
Part two of a three-part guest post series on bankruptcy and workers compensation by Robert Aurbach, CEO of Uncommon Approach. The last posting introduced Joe, the injured employee of a self-insured employer, and discussed the ways the workers' compensation system failed him when the employer filed for Federal Bankruptcy protection...

Bankruptcy and Workers' Compensation: Broken Promises, Broken Lives

Posted on January 12, 2009
With the difficult economy, the issue of "what happens to a workers' comp claim in the event of a bankruptcy" is on the minds of many of our readers. We?ve addressed the issue of bankruptcy in the past. Today, we are pleased to introduce a more detailed three-part guest post series on bankruptcy and workers compensation by Robert Aurbach, CEO...

Health Wonk Review's first 2009 edition; plus, podcast on cardiac workers' comp claims

Posted on January 09, 2009
This year's first edition of Health Wonk Review is posted at The Health Care Blog. Host Brian Klepper has done an excellent job culling out what he describes as "... the far-ranging insights, jabs, diatribes, rants and enthusiasms of this edition of Health Wonk Review, which features analysis and exegesis as entertainment...

West Virginia Builds a Pool

Posted on January 06, 2009
We have been following the developments in West Virginia, where a once monopolistic state for workers comp insurance has been transformed into a competitive market. The well-designed transition began in 2006 with the creation of BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Company, which for a couple of years offered the only available insurance to employers...

Cavalcade of Risk and news notes for the New Year

Posted on January 05, 2009
Happy new year to all our readers! While we were taking a short holiday break, Louise at Colorado Health Insurance Insider was toiling away to produce a special New Year?s Eve Cavalcade Of Risk. There's some good reading there, it's good way to ease your way back into some of the health care issues that lie before us in the...

Greatest hits of 2008; Top ten of all time

Posted on December 30, 2008
It's that time of year when the media takes a look back at the top stories of the preceding year so we thought we'd jump on the seasonal bandwagon and offer a retrospective of our top posts for 2008, along with a list of the top 10 most popular posts of all time...

The Hazards of Deconstruction

Posted on December 22, 2008
When we think of safety on the construction site, its usually in the context of new and renovated buildings. But deconstruction is fraught with hazards, too. Just as the timing and sequence of events in building must be constantly reviewed from a safety perspective, deconstruction requires a similar review...

The Big Squeeze on FedEx

Posted on December 19, 2008
We have frequently blogged the labor issues at FedEx, the ubiquitous delivery giant. FedEx relies on "independent contractor" drivers for business and neighborhood deliveries. An interesting article by Corey Dade in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) discusses the potential impact of a Democratic Congress on FedEx's business model...

Cavalcade of Risk; introducing some blog finds

Posted on December 17, 2008
Nancy Germond, blogger at Insurance Copywriter makes a fine debut as host of this weeks Cavalcade of Risk #67. Its a good issue. Plus, we like Nancy - weve linked to some of her risk management columns at AllBusiness before. Note her recent timely column: Top Ten Ways to Avoid a Santa Suit...

OSHA rule on Personal Protective Equipment in effect January 12, 2009

Posted on December 16, 2008
Last week, OSHA unveiled its final rule on Clarification of Employer Duty To Provide Personal Protective Equipment and Train Each Employee. To comply with this standard, beginning January 12, 2009, employers must provide personal protective equipment and hazards training for each employee covered by the standards...

Health Wonk Review, medical costs, price hikes, joint & several liability, and more

Posted on December 11, 2008
Health Wonk Review ? The ?Just the Facts, Ma?am? Edition - hosted by Vince Kuraitis at e-CareManagement - Dragnet fans take note! NCCI report on medical benefits - The medical share of total losses has grown dramatically ? from just over 40% in the early 1980s to almost 60% today...

Dollar Tree's Investment

Posted on December 09, 2008
On December 1 we blogged the story of Taneka Talley, an employee of the Dollar Tree stores who was stabbed to death at work by a deranged racist. We believed that Talley's death was compensable under workers comp, as she died at work, performing her job (she was stocking shelves at the time of the assault)...

Maryland officials monitoring GM solvency related to workers compensation

Posted on December 08, 2008
With the Big 3 automakers discussing potential fallout if the federal government doesn't come through with a bailout package, there is one aspect of the fallout that would likely be a mere footnote in the wake of such a massive failure, but that would be of interest to thousands of workers: the issue of what happens to workers compensation claims...

Walmart's Killer Bargains

Posted on December 04, 2008
Jdimytai "Jimbo" Damour took a temp job for the Christmas rush at the Walmart in Green Acres Mall on Long Island. Some rush. When a crowd of bargain hunters pushed into the store at 5 am on "Black Friday," Damour, a 34 year old who weighed 270 pounds, fell to the floor and was trampled...

Cavalcade of Risk #66 and sundry workers comp news notes

Posted on December 03, 2008
Cavalcade of Risk #66 is posted at Political Calculations, where the blogger who goes under the alias of Ironman takes an innovative approach by offering two editions with all posts presented in a grid-like format, applying a blog post rating system. See Investment Grade and Kit and Caboodle versions for this week's entries...

Icon Cleaners: Amityville Horror Revisited

Posted on December 02, 2008
For many of us, Amityville NY brings to mind a book (and movie) called the Amityville Horror, which tell the story of an innocent couple moving into a house whose prior inhabitants had been murdered. The house is haunted by the ghosts of the deceased...

Legal Advice on the Cheap

Posted on December 01, 2008
Dollar Tree is a national company with stores in all 48 states. Everything they offer costs a buck. (They are doing very nicely in this recession.) Here's how they describe themselves: Walk into one of our stores and it hits you immediately: this is a place where shopping is fun...

The human cost of bringing poultry to the table

Posted on November 26, 2008
Last week, North Carolina's Occupational Safety and Health division levied 49 citations and $178,000 in fines for workplace hazards on the House of Raeford Farms, one of nation's largest poultry processors. This action was taken in response to serious, repeat safety violations, many involving hazardous chemicals that pose a threat to the safety of both the plant workers and the...

Ohio: Severed Joint and Several?

Posted on November 24, 2008
There are a number of ways to purchase workers comp insurance: most companies secure stand-alone policies. Under experience rating, if the company has losses, their costs go up; if they have lower than average losses, they benefit from reduced premiums...

Cavalcade of Risk, health care reform, bankrupt insurers, guns at work and more

Posted on November 20, 2008
Joe Paduda is hosting the post-election edition of Cavalcade of Risk. Dedicated blogger that he is, his post comes to us from Las Vegas, where he offers observations from the floor of the National Workers Comp and Disability Conference. Joe has been a roving workers comp reporter lately...

The Nocebo Effect: Reading Drug Labels Can Make You Sick

Posted on November 18, 2008
There is a fascinating article in today's Wall Street Journal (subscription required) that raises interesting implications for workers compensation. Melinda Beck writes that warning labels on medications can actually stimulate symptoms, especially when stress is involved...

Florida lawyers win, employers lose

Posted on November 17, 2008
Florida employers have seen about a 60% rate decrease since the 2003 workers compensation reform but it looks like all that is about to change. NCCI has just filed for an 8.9% Florida rate increase in the wake of a recent Florida Supreme Court ruling...

Triathlete Trains on the Public Dime

Posted on November 14, 2008
There must be something in the smoke: a few months ago we blogged the tale of Albert Arroyo, a Boston firefighter who participated in a body building contest while collecting workers comp for an alleged disability. Well, to demonstrate that we harbor neither geographic nor gender prejudices, we tell the tale of Christina Hijjawi, a 37 year-old firefighter from San...

Health Wonk Review's post election edition

Posted on November 13, 2008
Louise has posted "The Election Is Over" edition of Health Wonk Review at Colorado Health Insurance Insider. Now that voters have made their choices and the dust is settling, many wonkers are opining about how health care reform is likely to take shape...

Arkansas: Frozen embryos and Workers Comp

Posted on November 11, 2008
Here are two items you might never expect to appear together: frozen embryos and workers comp. But a case in Arkansas reveals that the comp system can easily be drawn into the ongoing (and apparently endless) debate of when life begins. Wade and Amy Finley were married in 1990...

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