Worker’s Comp Insider


Per the site, a "weblog about workers' compensation, risk management, business insurance, workplace health and safety, occupational medicine, injured workers, insurance webtools and technology and related topics."

Author: Lynch Ryan is a management-side consulting firm that helps, as the company puts it, "employers, insurers, third-party administrators, industry associations and government bodies" develop and apply worker's comp cost control systems.

Blawg Related Categories: Benefits/ERISA • Labor & Employment • Legal Information • Workers Compensation

Recent Posts from Worker’s Comp Insider


  • Housekeepers, Revisited

    Back in September we blogged the mass layoffs of housekeepers at the Hyatt Hotels in Boston. After unknowingly training their replacements, long-term employees were laid off, their jobs taken over by employees of a temp…

  • State Rankings: Why is Massachusetts at the Top?

    Recently, in one of his Risk & Insurance columns, our friend and colleague, Peter Rousmaniere, wrote a piece examining workers’ compensation costs and benefits among the various states. There are a few organizations that do…

  • Cavalcade of Risk: Short and Sweet

    Jason Shafrin of Healthcare Economist has posted the latest edition of Cavalcade of Risk. It's a pungent mix of interesting items and well worth a few minutes of your time. Readers will be rewarded with…

  • Workers Comp Insider Wins Top National Blog Award

    Well, bust our balloons and call us surprised! We learned yesterday that the Lexis Nexis Workers’ Compensation Law Center has honored the Workers Comp Insider with the award of Top National Workers’ Compensation blog of…

  • The Geography of Health: US vs. Them

    Given the discouraging and often appalling level of debate on health insurance in America, it was refreshing to view the PBS Frontline broadcast “Sick Around the World,” a documentary that dispassionately analyzed different health care…

  • Hot off the press: Health Wonk Review; other news notes

    Louise Norris has posted a very simpsons-esque edition of Health Wonk Review at Colorado Health Insurance Insider. Of course, commentary on the Affordable Health Care for America Act is front and center. This issue is…

  • Promising PTSD and TBI research holds hope for better treating injured veterans

    On this Veteran's Day, here's a salute to all the veterans and active military service members out there. In the shadow of the horrific events at Fort Hood, this day of commemoration takes on a…

  • A Matter of Time: Independent Contractors Morph into Employees

    We turn yet again to the ever-troubling issue of independent contractors. In today's case we examine a situation where two individuals, beginning as legitimate independent contractors, morph over time into employees. It's a cautionary tale…

  • Disabled Carpenter Climbs a Mountain

    Christopher Robin Briejer used to be a carpenter. He suffered a back injury in 2000 and was disabled from work. Except that he apparently kept on working. In 2003 he hurt his back again while…

  • Compensable Shampoo?

    Ginger Wilson works as a librarian in Montgomery County, Virginia. One day she arrived at work, got out of her car and headed for the library entrance. Then she remembered that she had a hair…