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
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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…
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Cavalcade of Risk & other workers' comp news briefs
Debbie Dragon or Wise Bread hosts this week's Cavalcade of Risk, which she dubs the "the How Much Assurance Does Your Insurance Offer edition." As usual, a good source of some of the best biweekly…
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OSHA issues largest fine on record to BP
At the end of last week, OSHA issued $87 million in penalties against BP for failure to make make the changes which were specified in a settlement agreement related to the 2005 explosion at a…
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The Tennessee Solution
It's safe to say that no state has really solved the independent contractor/sole proprietor conundrum. Rather than require comp coverage for all workers, most states either exempt sole proprietors from coverage or make it optional.…
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Halloween edition of Health Wonk Review; other news notes from the blogs
Our local neighbor Tinker Ready of Boston Health News has done a most excellent job in her illustrated Halloween edition of Health Wonk Review – she even included photos from her local haunted house. Go…
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FedEx Sued: Mooning in Moon Township?
Labor officials of three states have written to FedEx, announcing their intention to file suit for "widespread, long-term, and unlawful employment practices." We have blogged this employment law conundrum many times (search "independent contractors" in…
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Workers Comp Insider Named to LexisNexis Top 25 WC Blogs
We thought we'd toot our own horn a little this morning. We were pleased to find a note in our mailbox from LexisNexis telling us that we had been included in the Top 25 Blogs…
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Cavalcade of Risk's spooky pre-Halloween edition
Did you know that this week is Protect Your Identity Week? Identity fraud seems like a rather timely theme for the week leading up to the nation's second most-popular holiday, noted for widespread trickery, mayhem…
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Inferno: Combustible dust explosion at Imperial Sugar - video report
We recently posted about the Imperial Sugar Company explosion report issued by the US Chemical Safety Board, but more recently we found a video version, which we think is well worth the nine and a…
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Not Exactly a Rush to Judgment
Kris Indergard used to work on the railroad. Then she hurt her knee (partly work related), had surgery and was out of work for over a year. Her doctor established "permanent" restrictions. Indergard wanted to…