Are Your Clients Prepared for Heat Risks?
Dehydration, heat stress, and heat stroke can escalate quickly during the summer months. Left untreated, these conditions are not just harmful but can also be life-threatening. With warmer weather on…
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NCCI Rolls Out New Learning Center Platform, Resources for Agents and Brokers
In 2024, the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) rolled out a modernized Learning Center accessible to the public. The Learning Center provides a range of topics, including classification, experience…
Reducing Workers’ Compensation Claim Frequency and Severity is Critical to Reducing Your Client’s Experience Modification Factor
No matter the size of your client’s workforce, their management of the organization’s workers’ compensation injuries can be challenging. Every organization struggles to find new ways to reduce the number…
Back to Basics – Lead with Workers Compensation Coverage
Read any insurance trade journal, and you’ll see articles about how agents can “lead with workers compensation insurance.” Savvy insurance agents can increase their business by targeting employers with considerable…
West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Legislation is a Dilemma with No Clear Solution – Yet
The Oxford Language Dictionary defines a Catch 22 as “A dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions. A new West…
Insurance Agents: Improve Your Clients’ Work Comp Results with Nurse Triage
As an insurance agent, you understand that your clients and their organizations face new challenges every day, including keeping workers’ compensation costs down, receiving proper workplace injury reports and improving…
Workers Compensation Rates Still Stable Despite COVID-19
A recent Rough Notes article, “Workers Compensation: An Oasis in a Dry Desert: An Island in Stormy Seas,” finds that despite COVID concerns, the workers compensation market is still stable.…
The Coming and Going Rule in Workers’ Compensation Claims
The coming-and-going rule in workers’ compensation claims management can determine whether an adjuster or administrative law judge finds an injury compensable. Because each state drafts its own workers’ compensation laws,…
“Workcation” and Work Comp
The employee decides to take his or her work “on the road” now that they are allowed to work from home – or anywhere. When the employee takes a “workcation”…
Wife Sues Husband’s Employer Because He Brings Home COVID
In a first of its kind case, a wife sues her husband’s employer alleging she contracted COVID from her husband as a result of the employer’s negligence leading to her…
