by Kelia Scott | Nov 11, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
The National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) released their report “Workers’ Compensation Benefits, Costs, and Coverage (2017 Data)” which shows that even though covered employment and wages have increased, benefits paid to injured workers have continued to...
by Kelia Scott | Nov 11, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
WCF Mutual Insurance Co. and Mitchell International Inc., published a study in this month’s Journal of Occupational and Environment Medicine which looks at the use of opioids by injured workers in Utah. The study shows that in Utah there has been a 50 percent decrease...
by Kelia Scott | Oct 29, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
A Health Trends report out from Quest Diagnostics called “Drug Misuse in America 2019: Physician Perspectives and Diagnostics Insights on the Evolving Drug Crisis” says that many doctors are concerned about another drug crisis taking the place of the opioid epidemic,...
by Kelia Scott | Oct 29, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
The Court of Appeals in Mississippi affirmed an award of death benefits to surviving dependents of a hospital material-management tech who was found dead in her office at work. There was no one who witnessed her death, and there is a presumption in Mississippi that...
by Kelia Scott | Oct 29, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
The United States Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statics (BLS) released a report saying that more workers (41) died on the job as a result of a single episode of inhaling chemicals in 2017 than were reported in 2016 (34). The number of fatal injuries like this...
