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Cavalcade of Risk #44

Posted on January 30, 2008
Silicon Valley Blogger does a superb job hosting this week's Cavalcade of Risk at The Digerati Life. The intro gives a hint of this week's content: The theme of this carnival is risk management. From disruptive physicians, to Indian IPOs and patents, and even baboons, you?ll find quite a diverse set of articles in this carnival that are tied together...

Independent Contractors: New Hampshire Defines, FedEx Whines

Posted on January 29, 2008
New Hampshire has come up with their own 12 step program to determine whether contractors are truly independent or just employees. Meanwhile, the IRS has come down hard on FedEx, hitting the company with a $319 million fine for misclassifying drivers as independent contractors...

Weblog roundup: recession and WC; cost of physicians; undocumented workers; and heath & safety

Posted on January 28, 2008
Recessions effect on WC - Joe Paduda offers his analysis of what the recession will mean for workers comp. Citing a 2002 Minnesota study, he notes that costs rise during recessions for two reasons: claims rates and disability duration both increase. He notes that other factors may well have a larger impact on costs than the recession...

Poncho Rules: Spanking is not Discriminatory

Posted on January 25, 2008
Back in April of 2006 we blogged the strange story of Alarm One, a security company with an odd way of motivating employees: to stimulate sales, they routinely punished low performers by throwing pies at them, feeding them baby food, making them wear diapers and even spanking them in front of their colleagues...

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Health Wonk Review and some handy new tools

Posted on January 24, 2008
A new edition of Health Wonk Review is being hosted by Vince Kuraitis at e-CareManagement blog, including posts about in-store clinics, physicians, problems and solutions in health systems, and cats, dogs and kangaroos. Suffice it to say that this is the first time kangaroos have surfaced in HWR, and I will leave it to you to discover why...

Shooting Lawyers the Bird: The Tribune's Employee Handbook

Posted on January 23, 2008
If it isn't clear by now, the Insider believes in a sense of humor. A few laughs help us get through the working day. So it is with some ambivalence that we tackle the issue of the Tribune Newspaper's new Employee Handbook. Written by a non-lawyer, the handbook attempts to present the myriad issues contained in a handbook in a...

Morbid Obesity and the Essential Job Functions of a Cop

Posted on January 22, 2008
When Paul Soto joined the NYPD in 1993, he was 25 years old and weighed 250 pounds. Ten years later, his weight ranged well above 300 pounds. As you might expect, he was having difficulty performing the essential functions of his job. He applied for disability retirement; pending review of his application, he was placed on light duty, which kept...

Heartburn in Tennessee

Posted on January 17, 2008
The Tennessee Restaurant Association (TRA), as you might expect, is a lobbying group for restaurants. One of the benefits of membership is access to special insurance programs. Around 500 members participated in a workers comp program run since its 1993 inception by the TRA's charismatic director, Ronnie Hart...

Cavalcade of Risk #43

Posted on January 16, 2008
We're pleased to be hosting this week's edition of Cavalcade of Risk. Participants have submitted a wide spectrum of analysis, tips, tricks, and tools to help manage risk, both in the public and the personal arenas. It's a hefty issue, so let's jump right in...

Kentucky: Age and Benefits Collide

Posted on January 15, 2008
The Insider continually tracks the impact of an aging workforce. There's no lack of material! Here's an interesting case from the Bluegrass state, where the issues of working past retirement age and the calculation of disability benefits collide. Charles Lickteig was a deputy sheriff in Jefferson County, Kentucky...

Hi-tech wheelchairs improve life for the disabled

Posted on January 14, 2008
If you haven't seen some of the recent progress being made in wheelchair technology, you may be in for surprise. This feature from deputydog, a "cool and interesting things" weblog, features photos, video clips and links to various hi-tech wheelchairs...

Health Wonk Review and news roundup

Posted on January 10, 2008
Bob Laszewski of Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review has posted the first Health Wonk Review of 2008, and it's a good one because people had to save up their best posts over the last month since we had a short hiatus. Many entries focus on analysis of the presidential candidates' positions on health care, which will be one of...

New Hampshire Backpedals on Contractors

Posted on January 08, 2008
Back in December we blogged a legislative remedy that backfired in New Hampshire: House Bill 471 eliminated the exemption for corporate officers and directors from workers comp coverage. Given the state's extremely high costs for comp, this created an immediate outcry...

Surgical Implant/Ethical Bypass: The Story of Dr. Chan

Posted on January 07, 2008
The Insider has often speculated about the thought process of medical providers, so we are very interested in case of Dr. Patrick Chan, a neurosurgeon working out of Searcy, Arkansas. The Canadian trained doctor has pleaded guilty to charges of demanding and accepting kickbacks from surgical implant maker Blackstone Medical of Springfield MA, a subsidiary of Orthofix International...

Cavalcade of Risk's first edition of 2008

Posted on January 03, 2008
Jonathon Pletzke of Consumer's Health Insurance Book Blog does a fine job hosting this week's back-to-work edition of Cavalcade of Risk - the first edition of the New Year. We'll be hosting the January 16 edition here at Workers' Comp Insider. Also, Health Wonk Review had a brief holiday hiatus but will be returning to its regular schedule a week...

2007 insurance year in review

Posted on January 02, 2008
Here at Workers Comp Insider, we're digging out after a holiday hiatus, and getting back into the swing of things with recaps of top insurance news from 2007 as presented by some of the leading insurance publications. While few of the major insurance stories in 2007 were specific to workers compensation, nothing in the insurance world lives in a vacuum...

Santa Claus is a risky guy!

Posted on December 21, 2007
There's no two ways about it - Santa is an underwriter's nightmare. He's overweight, he drives too fast, and there is some evidence that he is tipping brandy while he drives. Plus he smokes a pipe and eats too many cookies. Besides all his bad habits, Santa's job is a nightmare, and he faces a lot of unusual health risks...

Cavalcade of Risk

Posted on December 19, 2007
Matthew Paulson is hosting the holiday edition of Cavalcade of Risk at American Consumer News. The host blog is an online magazine offering tricks, tips and ideas designed to promote financial freedom. It focuses on such topics as investing, real estate, frugality, saving money, debt reduction, and more - timely topics for those of us who are in New Year's...

Last minute holiday gift ideas for the insurance professional in your life

Posted on December 18, 2007
If you haven't done your holiday shopping for that special actuary or risk manager on your list, never fear! We've scoured the Web to bring you a variety of last minute gift suggestions. You should be able to find something for everyone with this huge selection of insurance-related T-shirts - "Trust me, I sell insurance" for your agent, perhaps? There...

Workers Comp in New Hampshire: A Cold Wind Blows

Posted on December 17, 2007
For those of you into weather, here is what's happening today on top of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, home of some of the world's most extreme conditions: it's -13 degrees fahrenheit, with the wind blowing at 93 miles an hour. Wind chill a brisk -59 degrees...

News roundup: Health Wonk Review, survival story, manhole covers, I.C.E. followup, OSHA agenda

Posted on December 13, 2007
David Harlow hosts the holiday edition of Health Wonk Review at Health Blawg, our final edition of the year. As one of the few attorneys in our HWR lineup, David lends a unique and valuable perspective to our discussions. Today, he sheds light on a variety of health matters in what may well be the largest edition of the year...

Changing the way we see disability

Posted on December 12, 2007
For a seasonal heart warmer, you can't do much better than the creative animated ad campaign entitled Creature Discomforts (video, sound alert) that is running on BBC. The ads are sponsored by Leonard Cheshire Disability to raise awareness for and change attitudes towards disability...

California Scheming: The State Fund Audit

Posted on December 11, 2007
Authorities are in the midst of a huge investigation of the State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) for workers compensation in California. The fund is a hybrid: the employees are state workers, but the behemoth insurer is not subject to the rules normally governing state entities...

Contract Workers as Employees in Texas

Posted on December 10, 2007
There are many permutations in the employer/independent contractor matrix. The Texas Supreme Court has ruled in Entergy v. Summers that the employees of a subcontractor - in this case, International Maintenance Corp (IMC) - can be considered employees of the general contractor...

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