Early signs for this years workers compensation market show that it is struggling against some significant headwinds. Two forces, in particular, continue to buffet the industry: A troubled job market and regulatory uncertainty.

In the year since the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as uncertainty has mounted over how the health insurance reform law will work and whether it eventually will even be the law of the land, producers are concluding they can only keep up, team up...

With the nation's legislative landscape dominated by health care reform and relatively stable workers' compensation rates in 2010, workers' compensation fell off the radar screen.