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• 22.8% workers comp rate hike rejected

  
  Jan Norman on Small Business — Authority: 426
  Proposed hikes in California workers compensation insurance rates has been rejected by state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California had recommended a 22.8% hike starting Jan. 1, 2010. Poizner’s staff recommended a 15.4% hike. But Poizner’s ...
  15 hours ago

• Tacoma paper looks at Washingtons liquor, workers comp monopolies

  
  Olympia Business Watch — Authority: 120
  The Business Examiner has published an interesting article (subscription required) examining the states monopoly approach to liquor control and the selling of workers compensation insurance. Washington is among the few states that hold business monopolies on those areas, reportersBreanne Coats and Hilary Reeves ...
  1 day ago

• Managing Your Work Comp Program Starts with An Assessment

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 137
  Your National Workers’ Comp Management Score TM will tell how you stack up.   To get your  company’s National Workers’ Compensation Score, the planning team answers and discusses, as a team, the questions in WorkersCompKit®.  Take the IQ Quick Check to see how it works and what you get.  RIMS ...
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• CANADA Nova Scotia Work Comp Board Helps Injured Workers with RXs Costs

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 137
  The Workers’  Compensation Board of Nova Scotia (WCB) is making it easier for injured workers to fill prescriptions as they recover from workplace injury or illness. Through a partnership  with Medavie Blue Cross, the WCB now has  PayDirect allowing approved, prescription medications, including ...
  1 day ago

• Pilot Out of Work From Retinal Damage Due to Laser Pointed at Aircraft Cockpit

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 137
  Canadian Pilot Still Out of Work After Laser Incident   The issue of  pilots being blinded by laser pointers remains under the microscope as an air ambulance pilot who suffered retinal damage in such an attack is still off work nearly two months later.  AS reported in the Canadian OH&S News , in early ...
  3 days ago

• Temporary Workers On Out of Town Assignment Traveling in Rental Car Sustained Injury IS Compensable

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 137
  How Would You Decide:  Employee Injured During “Commute” While on Temporary Out-of-State Duty Is Not Barred From Recovery by “Going and Coming Rule” Here’s what Tom Robinson, J.D., writer for Lexis Nexis Workers Comp Law Center reports. Here’s What Happened West and three  other ...
  3 days ago

• AUSTRALIA Unions Want Right to Initiate Prosecution of Unsafe Workplaces To Hold Employers Responsible

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 137
  Thousands of workers  recently held protest meetings in Sydney and Melbourne to fight for stronger workplace health and safety laws so that fewer workers are injured or killed.  Unions report they are concerned that time is running out to prevent governments from caving in to a big business agenda to cut red ...
  3 days ago

• CANADA Brochure about Workplace Safety On Ice

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 137
  New Resources Help Alberta Workers Stay Safe on Ice It all started   when a snowcat driver and his vehicle went through the ice while constructing an ice bridge on the Peace River. The prime contractor at the site pleaded guilty to violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act, and was fined a total of ...
  5 days ago

• Be Careful About Hiring Obese People

  
  Safe Workplace and Safety News — Authority: 98
  Yesterdays edition of the Kansas City Star includes an article titled "Obesity becomes a workers’ comp complication". It describes situations in which workers were injured had weight loss surgery paid for by workers comp. One of the examples in the article states: "...the Oregon Supreme Court said an employer ...
  5 days ago

• Big surprise: Workers comp insurance rates going down

  
  Post-Ed Notes — Authority: 125
  Was anyone surprised to read that workers comp insurance rates would be dropping by almost 10 percent next year? Such a happy development wouldn’t have anything to do with state legislators’ plans to force rate reductions, would it? It’s a good thing, don’t get me wrong. State Sen. Morgan Carroll, ...
  5 days ago

• TEXAS Pros and Cons of Opting Out in Texas: The Single Workers Compensation Insurance Opt Out State

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 137
  Fact: Workers’ Compensation Insurance is a type of “property and casualty” business insurance required in all states, except Texas where an employer may opt out. It is referred to as a “line” of insurance coverage and is purchased from an insurance agent or broker. Don’t Tempt Fate:  Buy a Workers’ ...
  5 days ago

• PA Workers‘ Compensation Appeal Board Reduced

  
  Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Lawyer Blog — Authority: 112
  When an aggrieved party wants to appeal a decision of a Workers’ Compensation Judge in PA, the first step is to the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB). Until recently, the WCAB was comprised of a total of 15 commissioners, who would travel throughout the State of Pennsylvania, holding oral ...
  5 days ago

• TEXAS Pros and Cons of Opting Out in Texas: The Single Workers Compensation Insurance Opt Out State

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 137
  Fact: Workers’ Compensation Insurance is a type of “property and casualty” business insurance required in all states, except Texas where an employer may opt out. It is referred to as a “line” of insurance coverage and is purchased from an insurance agent or broker. Don’t Tempt Fate:  Buy a Workers’ ...
  6 days ago

• CANADA Temporary Foreign Workers Program Not Working

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 137
  Canada’s auditor  general claims Auditor General Sheila Fraser the government’s temporary foreign worker program is not run efficiently or effectively and tabled a report with Parliament highlighting problems. According to  a report from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , Fraser said there’s no ...
  6 days ago

• The Other Half of Entity Resolution

  
  Identity Resolution Daily — Authority: 118
  By Robert Barker, Infoglide Senior VP & Chief Marketing Officer In a recent post , Jonathan McDonald quotes one definition of entity resolution: According to Gartner, entity resolution is “the capability to resolve multiple labels for individuals, products or other noun classes of data into a single ...
  6 days ago

• The Public Option in Workers Comp

  
  Managed Care Matters — Authority: 511
  Thanks to the good folks at Workers Comp Insider, I learned of an intriguing study conducted by Conning and Company that concludes (in part) that private work comp insurers dont perform as well as public ones. Here are a couple...
  6 days ago

• CANADA Canadian Mounties Workers Compensation Post Traumatic Stress Disabilities Rise

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 137
  Mounties Experience Rise in PTSD in Past Decade The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ,  based on RCMP statistics, reports a sharp rise in disability for post-traumatic stress disorder for Canadian Mounties in the past decade. The report shows  162 officers requested partial or full disability for PTSD in ...
  1 week ago

• Use a Comprehensive Approach Not A Quick Fix To Repair Your Workers Compensation Program

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 137
  Use a systematic approach to managing your workers’ compensation costs. It should be a comprehensive program tackling the key cost areas driving workers’ compensation costs. Cost drivers are found in how companies implement policies and procedures impacting workplace injuries. It won’t be quick and it ...
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• Ethics in workers comp managed care

  
  Managed Care Matters — Authority: 511
  The world of work comp managed care is highly competitive, with vendors willing to push pretty hard to win business or hold on to customers. Thats the way the market is, and as long as these practices dont cross the...
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• NEW ZEALAND Accident Compensation Fees to Rise

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 137
  New Zealand ’s ACC Releases Proposals for Increase to Levies The Accident Compensation  Corporation (ACC) of New Zealand has unveiled proposals to increase accident levies as part of its annual levy setting process. The proposals relate to three ACC levies: 1.  Work levy rates providing coverage for ...
  1 week ago

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