Businesses contemplating the return of employees to physical workplaces have a lot on their plates, regardless of whether theyâre updating office layouts to protect workers from COVID-19 or reopening facilities that were shut down during the pandemic. Careful planning around these moves is critical, but it is also important for companies to ensure that other workplace considerations do not fall by the wayside â namely, potential ergonomic risks.Â
Whether adopting permanent or hybrid work-from-home models, returning to the office or resuming activity at facilities, it is crucial for companies to make sure they have ergonomically sound set-ups in place to safeguard employeesâ wellbeing. While doing so has historically been more of an art than a science, the use of artificial intelligence in ergonomic risk evaluations has made identifying and preventing such risks much easier.
Lobbying compensation: Mid-major firms fared well during first quarter
Here’s a rundown of how the rest of the firms in the Top 15 fared in the first quarter.
The state’s biggest lobbying firms may be scooping up $2 million-plus every quarter, but there’s still plenty of work to go around for the rest of the lobby corps.
In fact, many of the firms lingering just outside the Top 6 are putting up numbers that could go toe-to-toe with the bluebloods if team size is considered.
Here’s a rundown of how the rest of the firms in the Top 15 fared in the first quarter.
Moody’s Says COVID-19 Impact on P&C Insurance Sector Was ‘Moderate’ By Claims Journal staff | May 24, 2021
Neither COVID-19 nor legislation enacted because of it has seriously harmed the creditworthiness of the property and casualty insurance sector, according to a report released by Moody’s Investors Service on Friday.
Businesses have filed about 1,700 business-interruption claims because of COVID-19 shutdowns, but those cases are largely being decided in favor of insurers, Moody’s said.
“US property policies typically require direct physical loss or damage to the property for business interruption losses to be compensated,” Moody’s said. “Moreover, most policies specifically exclude coverage for losses caused by a virus or communicable disease.”
Jayne Kresac
National -The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) released its 2020 State of the Line Report last week. In its findings, NCCI showed that net written premiums dropped 10% in large part due to the pandemic recession. It also found that nonCOVID claims dropped 7%, and carriers reported $260 million total COVID-19 incurred losses. Nursing homes, hospitals, clinics, other healthcare settings, and first responders accounted for 75% of COVID claims. The most severe 1% of COVID claims made up 60% of COVID loss dollars. The average severity of COVID claims was around $6,000 out of 45,000 claims. Despite the effects of COVID, “the workers compensation system has been strong and resilient,” according to NCCI Chief Actuary Donna Glenn, as reserve redundancy numbers remain robust. Data released by Sedgwick showed that healthcare workers were heavily responsible for the uptick in increased mental health claims. In 2020, mental health claims rose by an overall 2.4%