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Health Wonk Review, NCCI, networks, Missouri, and more

Posted on May 15, 2008
Jason Shafrin of Healthcare Economist hosts this week's edition of Health Wonk Review in newspaper style - it's lean and clean, and packed with interesting pointers to the latest news. NCCI conference - Peter Rousmaniere attended the annual NCCI Conference this year and reports back on his findings, posted at Joe's place...

Workers compensation and recessions

Posted on May 14, 2008
Are we in or headed to a recession? Each of us might have our own opinions based on the industry we work in, the number of times we have to fill our gas tank during the week, and the area of the country where we live. According to the economic cognoscenti, the jury is still out - some industry insiders...

FedEx Sued by Shareholders

Posted on May 13, 2008
As if Fed Ex did not have enough problems, the company with the unusual staffing model is now being sued by some shareholders. Given that the suit has been filed by Local 51 of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Pension Fund, it's no surprise to find that the suit attacks the business model of hiring "independent contractors" to carry out the...

Workers Comp and Wellness: Partners at a Distance

Posted on May 12, 2008
Bill Thorness has written an interesting article for NCCI on the relationship of wellness programs to workers comp costs. In some respects, it involves a "duh" thesis: wellness programs can significantly lower comp costs, because healthy workers are less prone to injury and, once injured, recover more quickly than their out-of-shape co-workers...

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Cavalcade of Risk; kudos; perverse incentives; legal nooks and crannies

Posted on May 08, 2008
Cavalcade of Risk is being hosted by Spencer Hill at Hill's Personal Finance Blog. He's got a good roundup of posts on a variety or risk-related matters from business to personal exposures - check it out! Kudos - Congratulations to Michale Fitzgibbon for his five year "blogiversary" at Thoughts From a Management Lawyer, a blawg (or law blog) that offers...

Eye safety and eye health on the job

Posted on May 06, 2008
If today is an average day, more than 2,000 people will have an eye injury at work. And tomorrow, the risk is even greater because the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says that more eye injuries occur on Wednesdays than any other day of the week. While many eye injuries will be relatively minor, about 5 percent will be debilitating...

Abusive Behavior as a Disability?

Posted on May 05, 2008
Rosemary Verga worked for United Airlines as a staff representative in human resources. This seems an odd choice for a woman described by co-workers as "a difficult person to get along with" - "impolite, unpleasant" and quick to explode. In addition to being rude, inflexible, easily upset and demeaning toward others...

Waterboarding for Sales

Posted on May 02, 2008
Joshua Christopherson is a supervisor of sales for Prosper, Inc., a Utah company that peddles on-line training and motivation courses. The courses range in price from $3,000 to $15,000. By most accounts Christopherson is a decent enough guy, albeit a bit obsessed with the performance of his sales team...

Health Wonk Review, RIMS, emergency responders, mysterious pork worker illness

Posted on May 01, 2008
Daniel Goldberg has posted an excellent new edition of Health Wonk Review at his Medical Humanities Blog. This week's roundup from the brainiacs of health wonkery encompasses everything from the usual health policy debates to alcopops, including a handful of posts on legal matters and new legislation...

Disrimination in the UK: The (Bald) Facts

Posted on April 29, 2008
James Campbell taught art classes at Denny High School in Stirlingshire, Scotland. He filed a discrimination claim under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), the UK's equivalent of our ADA. His disability? Baldness. He claimed that he had suffered from harassment at the hands of pupils because of his lack of hair...

Worker Memorial Day 2008

Posted on April 28, 2008
Today is Workers Memorial Day, a day that is dedicated to recognizing workers who have been killed or injured on the job. It was started by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in 1984 and began here in the U.S. in 1989. Today, it is marked by workers across the globe...

Why Wait? New Brunswick Debates the Waiting Period

Posted on April 25, 2008
A labor group in our neighbor to the North, New Brunswick, Canada, is seeking an end to the three day waiting period for workers comp benefits. "We really believe it is unfair," said Michel Boudreau, president of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour...

Cavalcade of Risk #50

Posted on April 23, 2008
We're honored to be hosting this 50th edition of Cavalcade of Risk, a sm�rg�sbord of some of the best posts from blogs that focus on the realm of risk. We have a hefty helping of posts so we'll dispense with further formalities and just dig right in. Health Care Which countries have the best health care systems? That's a question...

Workers Comp: An Obligation to Get Better?

Posted on April 22, 2008
In conventional medicine, people are generally free to choose their care, up to the limits of their coverage. They can opt for certain procedures or decide to forego them. For the most part, adults are independent players in the medical system, acting in accord with their own wishes...

Contractors vs employees: KBR and Blackwater shell games

Posted on April 21, 2008
A reader sent us a story from the Boston Globe that we previously missed about contractors who are suing KBR for toxic exposures to sodium dichromate in Iraq. Nine Americans are suing the erstwhile Halliburton subsidiary for " ...knowingly exposing them to the deadly substance and failing to provide them with the protective equipment needed to keep them safe...

The 41-hour smoke break and other elevator stories

Posted on April 18, 2008
While working late one Friday night to meet a publication deadline, Nicholas White decided to take a smoke break. It lasted 41 hours. White worked on the 43rd floor of the McGraw Hill Building in downtown Manhattan. His descent in the elevator on his way to the smoke break was uneventful, but on the trip back up, the elevator got...

Health Wonk Review is posted at Health Beat

Posted on April 17, 2008
Maggie Mahar and Niko Karvounis have posted a fine new edition of Health Wonk Review at Health Beat. They've done superlative work in summarizing and commenting on each post, making it a very good read indeed. While visiting Health Beat, be sure to check out some of Maggie's other posts - in the sidebar, there's a collection of links to...

"Tracks of My Tiers": Health Care Rationing Comes to America

Posted on April 16, 2008
Gina Kolata writes in the New York Times that health insurance companies are adopting a new pricing system for some of the most expensive drugs, pushing more of the cost onto consumers. It goes by the innocent sounding name of "Tier 4." It might as well be called "bankruptcy for the seriously ill...

News Roundup: trouble in FL; medical apartheid; exclusive remedy in NJ; regulators caving, and more

Posted on April 14, 2008
Trouble brewing in Florida - Joe Paduda of Managed Care Matters is looking at a proposed regulation in Florida for hospital reimbursement and he is not liking what he sees. He says its a situation that is likely to "scare the pants off you." Medical apartheid - Richard Eskow of Sentinel Effect posts about recent studies by the Robert Wood...

Kneading the Dough

Posted on April 11, 2008
The Arthur Avenue Bakery in the Bronx NY is famous for its cannoli and crusty bread. The bread is not the only crusty item at the bakery. We read in the NY Times that the 50 year old institution is suddenly famous for unfair labor practices: some employees worked 12 hour days for $50 a day - an hourly rate...

Are bloggers the new occupational risk group?

Posted on April 09, 2008
If you have bloggers on the payroll, both you and they may be at risk for work injuries - or even death! At least that's the word according to a recent article by Matt Richtel in the New York Times, In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop...

New Jersey Comp: A Safety Net with Big Holes

Posted on April 08, 2008
New Jersey is known for many things, including these odd tidbits: three consecutive governors broke their legs while in office (Whitman, McGreevey, Corzine); no self-serve gas; no state song; the lowest rate of depression in the US. And an idiosyncratic workers comp system that has not been changed significantly since the 1970s...

Privatizing in Nassau County: A Good Idea, But...

Posted on April 07, 2008
Nassau County in New York is currently paying about $10 million a year for the partial disability claims of former county employees. They would like to settle these claims, but as with most municipalities, their budget process offers no opportunity for fronting the costs of settlement...

An Apology from Walmart

Posted on April 04, 2008
Back in November, just before Thanksgiving, we blogged the story of Deborah Shank, a 52 year old woman who stocked shelves in Wal-Mart's Cape Girardieu, Missouri store. Here's how we described the situation: Seven years ago, [Deborah] was perusing yard sales with a friend when a tractor trailer plowed into her van...

Health Wonk Review is posted; plus, weekly news roundup

Posted on April 03, 2008
An excellent new edition of Health Wonk Review is awaiting your perusal at The Health Care Blog. The post is authored by Brian Klepper, a nationally recognized health care analyst and consultant and a roving blogger who regularly posts at Matthew Holt?s The Health Care Blog, Patricia Salber MD?s The Doctor Weighs In (where he is the sole non-physician contributor),...

The Best Health Care in the World: Part Five: A recap, a few questions, a conclusion and a modest proposal

Posted on March 31, 2008
This series is meant to paint a realistic, well-sourced and objective portrait of American health care early in the 21st century as compared with that of our 29 partners in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, all of us comprising the most developed democracies in the world), and to examine how workers' compensation fits into that mix...

Fodder for a Friday: Injured Workers and Injured Soldiers

Posted on March 28, 2008
There's a brouha brewing in England, where a civilian employee of the Ministry of Defense (MoD) has been awarded 202,000 pounds for straining his back while picking up a printer. In this country, $350K+ awards are not all that unusual for (serious) back injuries, but the British tabloid press has jumped all over this story, comparing the generous benefits to...

Calvalcade of Risk is Up

Posted on March 27, 2008
Ernesto the Insurance Geek is hosting this week's Cavalcade of Risk at InsuranceYak.com. He has sifted through a whopping 18 submissions, thereby providing easy access to anyone with an interest in risk - and that is just about all of us. Check it out...

How not to commit fraud

Posted on March 25, 2008
If you are a corrections officer on leave for a workers compensation injury, you should probably avoid getting dressed up in drag and competing in a public 40-yard dash, running in high heels. Nor should you work two other jobs while collecting workers comp benefits due to your inability to work...

Health Wonk Review and news roundup

Posted on March 20, 2008
Fresh wonkery - A fresh new edition of Health Wonk Review - the "fearless leader" edition - is hot of the presses at Joe Paduda's blog, Managed Care Matters. As the original mastermind behind HWR, Joe has more than earned that nickname. This week's edition focuses on reform - a continuing theme this year - as well as pharma &...

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