Workers' Comp

Carol Sipe will succeed Rick Hodges at Summit in Lakeland.

Nudging the workers' compensation marketplace into the twenty-first century, state regulators have either moved forward with or are developing mandates for electronic reporting of medical claims data.

The repressed economy, record unemployment, and a polarizing health-care debate have pushed workers' compensation insurance off the radar screen in Florida -- perhaps too soon.

President Barack Obama recently spoke to America's school children (well, most of them, anyway) about the importance of working hard to achieve their goals. Perhaps this 21st Century president also should have mentioned a significant new-century problem.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), a not-for-profit organization dedicated exclusively to fighting insurance fraud and vehicle theft, has released its analysis of reported suspicious activity for the first half of 2009.

In the workers' compensation system, medical case management has typically been either "telephonic" or "field." But today we are seeing a third type: catastrophic international case management.