(866) 635-2689 for Personal Injury or (866) 635-9402 for Criminal Defense
Find a Local Lawyer
Divorce (866) 635-6190
Personal Injury (866) 635-2689
Criminal Defense (866) 635-9402
Workers Comp Insider 
About workers compensation insurance, risk management, workplace health and safety, occupational medicine, and related topics.
Post Frequency: 5.3/day Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 15:16:48 Recent Entries: 590
By Lynch Ryan
Go to Workers Comp Insider, find other Disability Law blogs, or browse all law blogs.
The lighter side: medical people having fun
Posted on August 13, 2010Friday afternoon in August - who wants to be too serious? We think it's the perfect time to deploy the secret stash of medical-humor related videos we've been collecting, The first is a feel-good clip performed by staff at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Oregon to raise awareness for breast cancer...
Cavalcade of Risk #111 and items that hit our radar this week
Posted on August 11, 2010Nancy Germond hosts this week's Cavalcade of Risk #111. Make sure you click her "just for fun" video for a display of unusual talent! Of course, her links to more serious risk-related posts are fun too, although in a slightly more nerdy way ;-) Here are a few other links to news items that hit our radar: Kleen Energy explosion:...
The aftermath of a CT tragedy
Posted on August 10, 2010Yesterday was a day of remembrance for the victims of last week's horrifying shootings at Hartford Distributors in Connecticut - our hearts go out to the family, friends, and coworkers of the deceased. Their lives will be forever changed and imprinted by this terrible event...
Flighty Health Wonk Review and sundry other news blurbs
Posted on August 05, 2010Jaan Sidorov has an air travel themed Health Wonk Review posted over at Disease Management Care Blog, which he calls "frequent flyer miles for your brain." There's a roundup of assorted news on the health care policy front ranging from a post on the growth of MinuteClinics to a look at hospital quality surveys...
Fanning the Flames in Erie County
Posted on August 02, 2010Erie County (NY) executive Chris Collins was frustrated by an annual outlay of about $11 million for workers comp. So the county implemented a policy requiring workers collecting indemnity (about 300 in all) to pick up the checks in person from the supervisor...
Cavalcade of Risk, Rocky Mountain Style, and other news notes
Posted on July 28, 2010Check out the Rocky Mountain High Edition of Cavalcade of Risk. Louise of Colorado Health Insurance Insider produces a great compendium of recent "best of the web" risk posts on a variety of topics ranging from the ubiquitous health care debates to investing and long term insurance...
David Warren and the Little Black Box
Posted on July 26, 2010David Warren died last week in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. He was 85. You may never have heard of this aeronautical researcher, but his work has impacted anyone who travels by air. David Warren is credited with the invention of the black box. (A splendid obituary by Douglas Martin in the New York Times can be found here...
Health Wonk Review: the dog days of summer edition
Posted on July 22, 2010Like much of the country, we've had a sizzling summer here in the northeast, and we are just entering the dog days of summer. In Ancient Rome, the Dog Days extended from July 24 through August 24 and were popularly believed to be an evil time "when the seas boiled, wine turned sour, dogs grew mad, and all creatures...
A Question of Language?
Posted on July 19, 2010The following guest post was submitted by Gary Anderberg, Phd, the Practice Leader For Outcomes and Analytics at Broadspire. I was participating in a recent meeting of health, wellness, workers' compensation and disability professionals. One of the issues on the table was information that the regs defining "Cadillac" plans may loop the cost of wellness programs, disease management and other...
Cavalcade of Risk, Picnic Edition, seasoned with a dash of risk management humor
Posted on July 14, 2010Jaan Sidorov dishes up a summer smorgasbord of risk at the 109th Cavalcade of Risk Picnic edition over at Disease Care Management Blog. Speaking of risk, yesterday Business Insurance twittered: Among the accomplishments of the legendary George Steinbrenner: making George Constanza learn about risk management...
Two farmworking teens killed in silo; media is mystified
Posted on July 13, 2010From Michigan, we learn the tragic news of the silo-related deaths of two teens on a farm. Victor Perez, 18, was a recent high school graduate who had worked on the farm for about 4 years. His co-worker Francisco Mendez Martinez, 17, had been on the job for about a month...
Bad Back: New York Toil and Trouble
Posted on July 12, 2010Today we examine one of the great conundrums in workers comp claims: the old injury that may or may not be defined as a new injury. In 2006 David Poulton worked for Martec Industries in Rochester, New York, as a laborer. Poulton had a bad back, having already filed workers comp claims in 1998 and 2000...
News roundup: complex care, WV, VT, obesity & more
Posted on July 06, 2010Happy post holiday weekend. This is a big vacation week, but if you are one of the many who is on the job today, here's a serving of a few news items that caught our attention. Complex Care - here at Lynch Ryan, we focus on helping injured workers to recover and get back to normal life activities, including work,...
Joe Cassano and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: Take Your Pick
Posted on July 01, 2010Joe Cassano is not apologizing to anyone. The former AIG executive who helped bring the world economy tumbling down says he did nothing wrong. His underwriting standards never changed: he never saw any risk in underwriting those collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)...
Cavalcade of Risk
Posted on July 01, 2010A fresh new Cavalcade of Risk is awaiting your perusal at Wenchy's place - check it out!...
Life for Dr. Death?
Posted on June 29, 2010Five years ago almost to the day we blogged the saga of Dr. Jayant Patel, a surgeon of staggering incompetence who wreaked havoc on the citizens of Bundaberg, Australia. After 14 weeks of testimony, more than 75 witnesses and nearly 50 hours of deliberations over six days, a jury convicted Patel of manslaughter in the deaths of four patients and...
Survivor stories: the human aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon tragedy
Posted on June 28, 2010Lawyers, investigators, policymakers and safety professionals will be wrangling over the Deepwater Horizon tragedy for years to determine what happened, where fault lay, and who will pay. By many accounts, Deepwater Horizon was had a relatively good safety record...
Health Wonk Review's Research Edition & a roundup of other news
Posted on June 24, 2010Brad Wright of Wright on Health has an excellent edition of Health Wonk Review, which shines a spotlight on research. Brad notes that, going forward, research will be incredibly important as health reform is implemented and evaluated. He offers a fine research roundup from leading healthcare bloggers - check it out! Healthcare - According to a Commonwealth Fund report on...
Fee Schedule in Maine: Interest without the Conflict?
Posted on June 23, 2010We return to the beautiful state of Maine, where moose wander the woods looking for whatever interests a moose and where employers self-insured for workers comp look for a fee schedule. The moose are a lot happier than the self-insureds. As we have pointed out in prior blogs, the legislature mandated the creation of a fee schedule for medical services...
Sewer Dweller
Posted on June 21, 2010A sewer may not be the preferred place to begin the work week, but the working world calls and we must follow. About a year ago, we blogged the sad story of Shlomo and Harel Dahan, respectively the owner and heir of S. Dahan Piping and Heating company in Queens, New York...
New York: Joint and Infinite Liability
Posted on June 18, 2010The saga of the New York self insurance trusts continues. We reported in April that justice had been served by Judge Kimberly O'Connell, who ruled that requiring solvent trusts to pay for the sins of insolvent trusts was unconstitutional. Now, according to Work Comp Central (subscription required), O'Connell herself has been overruled by a four judge panel, which has reinstated...
New York: In Trusts We Trust Not
Posted on June 17, 2010Two years ago, New York Governor Patterson convened a task force to examine the status of self-insured trusts for workers comp. He was forced to take action when a number of trusts failed, most notably those administered by Compensation Risk Managers (CRM)...
Marking 100 Years: The history of Workers' Compensation
Posted on June 16, 2010Workers comp is 100 years old this year and by way of Roberto Ceniceros' informative blog Comp Time, we learn that there is a Workers' Compensation Centennial Commission (WCCC), which was formed to celebrate the anniversary of the first constitutional workers' compensation law in the United States...
Cavalcade of Risk #197
Posted on June 16, 2010For a biweekly risk roundup, check out this week's edition of Cavalcade of Risk over at My Wealth Builder....
Tewksbury (Finally) Opts In
Posted on June 15, 2010There are five towns in Massachusetts that do not carry workers comp insurance for their employees. Four of them - Dana, Prescott, Enfield and Greenwich - are under 412 billion gallons of water: they were submerged during the 1930s in the making of the Quabbin Reservoir, which supplies drinking water to Boston and a number of suburban cities and towns...
Healthcare Reform and Workers Compensation
Posted on June 14, 2010In the the following guest post, Gary Anderberg, Phd, the Practice Leader For Outcomes and Analytics at Broadspire offers his thoughts on the potential impact of healthcare reform on workers comp in the coming years. At the moment, health care reform appears to have a number of positive and negative potential impacts on workers compensation over the next few years...
A killer edition of Health Wonk Review & other noteworthy news
Posted on June 10, 2010Our Boston neighbor Tinker Ready hosts this week's edition of Health Wonk Review at Boston Health News and it's a killer edition - check it out. Awkward - Making the web circuits, many have been posting about the Bollywood safety dance video by Transocean's CEO...
Engulfed by Risks
Posted on June 08, 2010We are following the consequences of the gulf oil disaster with increasing despair. Images of oil soaked birds, dead fish, and the serene Gulf waters transformed from the customary beautiful blue-green to an appalling brown. Our thoughts also turn to the men and women laboring under very challenging conditions to contain the impact of this man-made disaster...
NY's Domestic Worker Bill of Rights
Posted on June 07, 2010In the 1930s, when the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) passed, these two laws offered labor protections to workers nationwide - with the exception of two large segments of the work population: domestic workers and agricultural workers...
Blowing Smoke in Montana
Posted on June 03, 2010As a service for Insider readers who do not follow the Flathead Beacon, we bring you the western Montana saga of Brock Hopkins, who either was or was not an employee of Great Bear Adventures when he had a great bear adventure of his own, much to his detriment...
Previous | Next
Columnist: Economy Hurt By Lack Of Immigrant Workers
A columnist for the newspaper where I worked my way through colleg...
Religious Workers In The United States
Leaders of religious organizations and institutes are often unawar...
Religious Workers - R Visa
A religious organization in the United States may sponsor an indiv...
Worker's Compensation Laws Overview
Protect Workers From Injuries with plans that cover medical expenses and long-term or permanent disabilites
Workers Compensation Overview
Federal laws that cover workplace injuries
H-1B Visas
How to get professional worker's visa
What can I do if my manager says I quit but I didn't?
When you file for unemployment, you can state your case that you did not in fact...
How to prevent an arrest from appearing in the local newspaper?
Dont know the law in Minnesota but in most jurisdictions an arrest is a matter o...
I did test negative on drug/alcohol test. I was escorted to the lab in the hospital I work in and asked in front of my co-workers who would be doing my drug testing. My test results were also sent to the office of the nu
hi, i just thought id give my sympathy as i too am in the mist of fighting a def...
My job requires me to drive bank deposits up to two times a day using my own vehicle and gas. Although not too far, can should I be receiving compensation? One deposit run is required daily by company policy, but the man
you should be getting a mileage comp. I own my own company and I pay my employee...
How are social security death benefits split between multiple surviving spouses?
Both would receive the same benefit amount, without either being reduced from wh...
#1 Online Legal Resource
On 08-25 at 15:46PM
Acute perpendicular parking #NYPD #NYFD
On 08-18 at 22:18PM
Parallel parking gone bad. Too much gas UES NYC
On 08-18 at 21:41PM
UES NYC
On 08-18 at 21:25PM
Twitter suspends journalist critical of broadcast partner's coverage on dubious grounds @guyadams #nbcfail #twitterfail
On 07-30 at 17:57PM
Model example of 1st Amendment suppression by the People of New York City's Michael Bloomberg #OWS #NYPD
On 07-12 at 21:07PM
AG Holder lackadaisical on Operation in our Sites domain name seizures & RIAA lobbied free speech suppression @dajaz1
On 06-08 at 22:44PM
Why is the Catholic Church going to court over Obama contraception policy? @NewYorker commentary
On 05-31 at 10:08AM
Monks sue Louisiana for right to sell caskets made from forrest destroyed by Katrina
On 05-31 at 07:47AM
Are the abortion ultrasound laws headed for the Supreme Court?
On 05-15 at 21:52PM
What can I do if my manager says I quit but I didn't?
When you file for unemployment, you can state your case that you did not in fact...
How to prevent an arrest from appearing in the local newspaper?
Dont know the law in Minnesota but in most jurisdictions an arrest is a matter o...
I did test negative on drug/alcohol test. I was escorted to the lab in the hospital I work in and asked in front of my co-workers who would be doing my drug testing. My test results were also sent to the office of the nu
hi, i just thought id give my sympathy as i too am in the mist of fighting a def...
My job requires me to drive bank deposits up to two times a day using my own vehicle and gas. Although not too far, can should I be receiving compensation? One deposit run is required daily by company policy, but the man
you should be getting a mileage comp. I own my own company and I pay my employee...
How are social security death benefits split between multiple surviving spouses?
Both would receive the same benefit amount, without either being reduced from wh...
 |
|
Contact Us | About Us | Celebrity Law Blog |
Our Partners | Disclaimer
| Law Blog Directory
| Law Jobs
| Law Tweets
| GoDaddy Hosting
All original material � 1999-2011 by USLaw.com. |