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Sedgwick, one of the largest workers' compensation claims-management firms in the United States, was penalized by Tennessee regulators more than any other

The Commercial Appeal spent months speaking with injured workers and reviewing hundreds of documents related to workers compensation cases in Tennessee.

Out Front Ideas Webinar: Does Our System Do Harm?, Chicago, IL - It is easy to identify the benefits of the workers ....

Vaccine Mandate Ruling Points Employers Back to State and Local Guidance, On January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court blocked the Biden Administration from implementing and ....

A group of tornadoes that tore across the central U.S. on December 10 and 11 resulted in widespread damage in several states and could serve as the

05/17/21 Judge David Langham Sometimes you get to break the news. Sometimes you are the news. But, usually, you just read the news. The art of blogging requires some temporality. Current events are generally of more interest than yesterdays news. By now, it is likely that you have noticed that the Workers Compensation Institute, postponed from "the year that wasnt" will be in December 2021, an accommodation to the virus that persists. So, today I merely write some more on that rescheduling, whi...

The so-called advocacy approach to workers compensation claims has gained ground over the past year as injured workers faced anxiety and uncertainty due to delayed medical care and a greater reliance on technology during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts say.  Workers have needed more help steering through the claims process, including using technology to access remote health care, and the extra stresses endured have highlighted the importance of behavioral health services, they say.  “...

Workers’ Compensation and COVID: More Data on Evolving Claims Workers’ compensation insurers aren’t getting the large aggregate volumes of COVID-related claims projected during the early months of the pandemic, but different data sources give varying readouts on developments for individual U.S. states and classes of workers. In fact, while claim frequencies are down for workers’ compensation overall with business shutdowns bringing lower numbers of non-COVID claims, and while the bulk o...

Workers’ Compensation and COVID: More Data on Evolving Claims Workers’ compensation insurers aren’t getting the large aggregate volumes of COVID-related claims projected during the early months of the pandemic, but different data sources give varying readouts on developments for individual U.S. states and classes of workers. In fact, while claim frequencies are down for workers’ compensation overall with business shutdowns bringing lower numbers of non-COVID claims, and while the bulk o...

COVID-19 Vaccinations and Workers' Compensation, Todays COVID-19 environment continues to present unique questions within the workers ....