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Insurance in the storm: buyers can expect the onset of a hard market

Posted on November 10, 2008
Because AIG has been at the epicenter of the economic earthquake, many non-industry observers point to insurance as one of the villains and the industry is getting a black eye that may not be warranted. AIG's problems did not surface in its insurance operations, which remained sound, but with their dubious investment portfolio which rocked the entire organization...

Cavalcade of Risk and a few news notes

Posted on November 06, 2008
Cavalcade of Risk #64 is posted and awaiting your perusal at SuperSaver. OSHA - three new safety bulletins are available from OSHA: Compactor Rollover Hazard Hazards of Transporting, Unloading, Storing and Handling Granite,Marble and Stone Slabs Hazards of Using Flammable Liquids in Cutting Laminated Glass Violence at work not always compensable - Roberto Ceniceros of Business Insurance reports on an...

Oregon's state rankings for workers? compensation premium rates

Posted on November 04, 2008
If you are an employer with operations in multiple states or if you are just plain curious about how your state's workers' comp costs stack up to other states, we have just the tool for you. The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has just released its biennial report on state rankings for workers' compensation premium rates (PDF)...

Hot off the presses: Health Wonk Review

Posted on October 30, 2008
David Harlow of HealthBlawg has posted the Samhain edition of Health Wonk Review. If you are like me and don't know what Samhain refers to, go and get yourself educumated - it's interesting! As are all the entries in this last-call edition for health policy posts before the upcoming election...

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Health & Safety resource roundup

Posted on October 29, 2008
Cleaning out our bookmark files, we came upon an assortment of health and safety resources that we thought we'd pass along. You may face some unusual hazards on your job, but it is unlikely you face anything like this - yikes. We've mentioned the Naval Safety Center's Photos of the Week - well worth checking out if you haven't...

Disability Insurer Oversight: Just Ducky?

Posted on October 28, 2008
Last month we blogged the emerging scandal involving the Long Island Railroad, where over 90 percent of employees (management included) retire on disability. Walt Bodanich and Duff Wilson of the New York Times have a follow up article that goes into some of the deails...

Attorney Fees in Florida: What is "Reasonable"?

Posted on October 27, 2008
Emma Murray was a certified nursing assistant for Mariner Health Care in Florida. While helping to lift a patient, she suffered a uterine prolapse, which required a hysterectomy. She filed for workers comp, but her claim was denied because the carrier determined that the condition was not work related...

Down the Rabbit Hole: The Economic Crisis and Workers Comp

Posted on October 23, 2008
We are all struggling to keep our bearings in a world where the conventional compass is spinning madly. The economic crisis has sent the stock market plummeting and has impacted every aspect of our lives. We wake up with the same thoughts that Alice had, following her fall down the rabbit hole: I wonder if I've been changed in the...

Cavalcade of Risk, plumbers, illegal immigrants, cranes, contractors, and more

Posted on October 22, 2008
Cavalcade of Risk #63:The WABAC edition hosted by John Cogan at Regulating Health Insurance. John is the Executive Counsel-Executive Assistant for Policy and Program Review for the Rhode Island Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner. He's a first time host of Cavalcade so you might kick the tires at his blog after catching up on the news...

Make way for the cyborgs: robotic mobility devices

Posted on October 20, 2008
We are totally fascinated with some of the assistive technologies that hold promise for the disabled to regain powers of mobility. We've previously discussed exciting developments in high tech wheelchairs and in July, we posted about a truly exciting development: an exoskeleton device from Israel called ReWalk, a light, wearable brace that holds promise for helping those paralyzed by...

Pre-election Health Wonk Review is posted

Posted on October 16, 2008
Things are heating up with the election just a few short weeks away. You can read about the pre-election health policy debate over at Joe's place. Now if you saw last night's debate, you might be thinking "Joe the Plumber," but no, this is Joe the health policy wonk at Managed Care Matters...

New Jersey: The Fix is In

Posted on October 15, 2008
Back in April, we blogged the troubled status of workers comp in New Jersey, a patronage-ridden system that failed to provide timely benefits to many injured workers. The system suffered from a decades-long inertia: yes, there were problems for injured workers, but employers benefitted from relatively low rates...

Texting can be lethal

Posted on October 14, 2008
With the recent focus on the economic meltdown and the pending election, you might have missed the story about the likely cause of the horrific California train crash that killed 25 people last month and injured 135 others. Almost immediately, authorities knew that the accident was the result of human error - the driver had failed to stop at a...

Cavalcade of Risk and other news

Posted on October 09, 2008
Check out Cavalcade of Risk #62 at Wenchypoo - the Wall Street Wipeout Edition! The financial crisis and workers comp - According to a recent broker survey by Advisen, more than 75% of the respondents were confident or very confident about AIG's financial security...

The AIG Saga: Joe Cassano's Performance-Based Compensation

Posted on October 08, 2008
One of the many fascinating sidebars in the decline and fall of the AIG empire is the saga of Joe Cassano. He was the genius behind AIG's Financial Products Unit, which insured high risk sub-prime mortgage deals. In other words, he is the man most responsible for AIG's abrupt demise...

Safety@Work Creative Awards 2008

Posted on October 07, 2008
Creative work safety contests are somewhat rare but they can be a great way to get kids and young people thinking about workplace safety early. We were happy to see that this year's winners in the Safety@Work Creative Awards for digital animation and poster design were recently announced...

Lollypops for Pain

Posted on October 06, 2008
We have been following the market trajectory of Actiq, the lollypop for pain manufactured by Cephalon. Actiq contains fentanyl, a highly addictive substance about 80 times more potent than morphine. It provides relief within 15 minutes. The drug, intended for breakthrough cancer pain, costs about $2,400 for a month's supply...

Health Wonk Review - hot off the presses

Posted on October 02, 2008
Jason Shafrin at Healthcare Economist offers 700 million reasons to read Health Wonk Review this week. From Wall Street to the election, health care policy issues grow more and more interesting - and imperative. Health Wonk Review offers analysis from some of the industry's smartest thinkers and policy wonks, culling out some of the choicest bits from the last two...

Eight steps to controlling workers' compensation costs in your company - part 3

Posted on October 01, 2008
This is part 3 in a 3-part series. Click here for part 1 and part 2. Step 6 ? Establish a partnership with your claim service provider The role of the insurer or third party administrator (TPA) is not to solve your workers? compensation problem. That is something you do together...

Eight steps to controlling workers' compensation costs in your company - part 2

Posted on September 30, 2008
This is part 2 in a 3-part series. For part 1, click here. Step 3 ? Develop an injury action plan Many employers think that when an injury occurs responsibility for getting the injured worker back to work shifts to the claim adjuster. Nothing could be further from the truth, and it is this basic misunderstanding that causes many claims...

Eight steps to controlling workers' compensation costs in your company

Posted on September 29, 2008
Many companies have recognized a basic truth about workers' compensation: that the worksite is the best place to control losses, and that they, as employers, have the maximum leverage to lower losses. These employers no longer try to hand the problem off to their legislators, their insurers or their attorneys; instead, they manage workers' compensation as a controllable expense...

Cavalcade of Risk and other news items

Posted on September 25, 2008
A new edition of Cavalcade of Risk is posted at American Consumer News, and as you might expect, quite a few bloggers weigh in on Wall Street-related matters. Also related to the financial goings-on: Business Insurance features a special section on AIG in Crisis with daily news coverage updates and other features...

Catastrophic claims and RTW

Posted on September 23, 2008
Milliman, Inc has just released a study that shows that Paradigm Management Services has remarkable rates of return to work for catastrophic and complex claims when compared to a benchmark database of 60,000 similar claims. Paradigm was five times more successful in getting patients released to return to work, 5 time better in getting patients returned to work, and 13...

Working on the Railroad?

Posted on September 22, 2008
The Long Island Railroad has an excellent safety record. They move millions of commuters safely to their destinations every year. You might assume, therefore, that railroad workers are relatively free from disabling workplace injuries. Well, yes and no...

Health Wonk Review: Political Convention Style

Posted on September 18, 2008
Jaan Sidorov's posted the Health Wonk Review, Political Convention Style at his Disease Management Care Blog, and it's a good one. We have three more HWR's before the election, and I think they will be a very good source of info on the candidate's health plans...

Comp Fraud Meets Moose

Posted on September 17, 2008
I am pleased to report that workers comp has entered into the informed debate that characterizes our pending national election. It is inspiring to see the national dialogue confront - one by one - the complex issues that face this country as we creep on all fours through the new millenium...

AIG: Farewell, My (Not-So) Lovely?

Posted on September 16, 2008
The collapse of AIG over the course of just a few days may be astonishing, but in some respects, it is not surprising. A few years ago, AIG stock sold for $100. Today, it's listed at $1.54. AIG is all about risk: much of it reasonable, but a significant portion of it fatally flawed...

Cavalcade of Risk #60

Posted on September 10, 2008
Life is full of risk. Even the seemingly innocuous pursuit of blogging is not without its risks. The other day, I found out that some unscrupulous blogger is reposting much of our content under their own name. We are not alone. Stealing blog content is getting to be a big business...

Workers Comp Insider: 5 years and counting!

Posted on September 09, 2008
Yay us! This month is our 5th year blogging anniversary so we were pleased to be named to Lexus-Nexus Top 25 Blogs for Workers Compensation -- and to see a few of our esteemed colleagues on the list, too. We have to laugh because when we started, we weren't sure we would find enough to post about to make it...

Florida: Punishing Profitable Carriers

Posted on September 08, 2008
When it comes to insurance, Florida is the land of Oz. You might think you know what risk transfer is, or how insurance companies operate, but the rules change as soon as you enter the Sunshine State. We already described Florida's strange approach to property coverage, where the state has pretty much self-insured for the inevitable catatrophe (which may be...

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