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Long Term Opioid Prescriptions: Key Insights for Workers’ Comp Success Understanding long term opioid prescriptions is essential for anyone navigating workers’ compensation. Whether you are an employer managing premium costs or an insurance agent serving clients, mastering long term opioid prescriptions gives you a decisive advantage—helping you avoid costly mistakes and deliver better outcomes in […]

Getting Loto Wrong Could: Key Insights for Workers’ Comp Success Understanding getting loto wrong could is essential for anyone navigating workers’ compensation. Whether you are an employer managing premium costs or an insurance agent serving clients, mastering getting loto wrong could gives you a decisive advantage—helping you avoid costly mistakes and deliver better outcomes in […]

Lock Out Tag Out: What You Need to Know Understanding lock out tag out is essential for anyone navigating workers’ compensation—whether you’re an agent advising clients or an employer managing risk. OSHA’s removal of the term “unexpected energization” from the LOTO standard likely to lead to more citations Under the Obama administration, OSHA began an […]

Trends In Combatting Abuse: Key Insights for Workers’ Comp Success Understanding trends in combatting abuse is essential for anyone navigating workers’ compensation. Whether you are an employer managing premium costs or an insurance agent serving clients, mastering trends in combatting abuse gives you a decisive advantage—helping you avoid costly mistakes and deliver better outcomes in […]

By Kevin Ring Institute of Work Comp Professionals Editor’s note: Kevin Ring, CWCA, CWCA, MWCA, is Lead Analyst at Institute of WorkComp Professionals, Asheville, NC of which we are a member. It trains, certifies independent insurance agents and their support staff to navigate the complicated workers’ compensation system and act as advocates operating between employers […]

Be sure your employees are covered when going out of state to assist with recovery The requirements for Workers’ Comp vary by state and the important message here is that if you have employees traveling out of state you want to be sure you have the correct states on the policy. You should work with […]

Osha Update Electronic Record: What You Need to Know Understanding osha update electronic record is essential for anyone navigating workers’ compensation—whether you’re an agent advising clients or an employer managing risk. OSHA’s Injury Tracking Application Injury Reporting is now available allowing employers to electronically enter their required 2016 injury and illness data from Form 300A. The Improve Track […]

Whether you’re an insurance professional, an employer or “the person in charge of insurance,” it’s often difficult to get your arms around Workers’ Compensation. It’s complex and fraught with so many “moving parts” you can almost be certain that what you say will be challenged and certainly open to interpretation. Foundation Of Workers Compensation: Key […]

Lower Job Classifications Mean: Key Insights for Workers’ Comp Success Understanding lower job classifications mean is essential for anyone navigating workers’ compensation. Whether you are an employer managing premium costs or an insurance agent serving clients, mastering lower job classifications mean gives you a decisive advantage—helping you avoid costly mistakes and deliver better outcomes in […]

ADA Employer requiring wellness program participation prevails over EEOC Legal Corner: What You Need to Know Understanding legal corner is essential for anyone navigating workers’ compensation—whether you’re an agent advising clients or an employer managing risk. A federal District Court in Wisconsin has ruled against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and held that a plastic […]