Workers' Comp

Chronic pain is one of the most common, costly, and challenging issues that workers' compensation payers face. The toll it can take on the life of the injured individual is just as dramatic, and costly, on a personal level.

The lingering effects of a deep economic recession have had a significant impact on the workers' compensation insurance market over the past many months.

Although none of its clients were harmed financially, Acordia insurance brokerage should pay a penalty for failing to tell them it had a special compensation arrangement with certain carriers, a judge has ruled.

The Insurance Information Institute is warning that levying a federal tax on property and casualty insurers to pay for the bailout of failed financial institutions would "constitute a significant policy error."

It is estimated that narcotics account for almost 40 percent of workers' compensation medication costs.

A growing number of workers' comp carriers are refining their underwriting and pricing approaches by data-mining their own systems along with external sources to transform their business.

Once again, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have issued new deadlines for some reporting responsibilities. Read one for the latest information on dates.

Nurse case managers must navigate both the healthcare and workers' compensation systems -- and in recent years, both have grown increasingly complex, making their jobs more challenging and demanding.