Uncategorized HR Tip: How employers are controlling health benefit costs 8 Oct 201823 Sep 2018 According to the nonprofit National Business Group on Health (NBGH) survey 2019 Large Employers' Health Care Strategy and Plan Design, the cost of employer-sponsored health benefits is expected to near…
Uncategorized Things you should know 24 Sep 201815 Aug 2018 Opioid spending down but topical medications up A report by Coventry Workers Comp compared its 2017 data on managed claims, representing 77.6% of total comp prescriptions, and unmanaged claims. Overall…
Uncategorized Overcoming the opioid crisis in the workplace 30 May 20181 Jun 2018 The national crisis of the misuse of and addiction to opioids echoes in the workplace every day. A National Safety Council (NSC) poll, estimates that over one-quarter of the U.S.…
Uncategorized HR Tip: Report: why employers are getting wellbeing wrong 18 May 20186 May 2018 A new report from the Campbell Institute, A Systems Approach to Worker Health and Wellbeing indicates not all employers are getting worker wellbeing right, and it could be affecting the…
Uncategorized Work-related injuries can increase a company’s healthcare costs through underreporting and on-going care 11 May 20186 May 2018 Two new studies came to a troubling finding: the usual method of studying reported injuries using workers' comp records may underestimate the true number of injuries due to underreporting and…
Uncategorized Long-term opioid prescriptions greatly increase the duration of temporary disability 9 May 20186 May 2018 The Workers' Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) examined the impact of opioid prescriptions on the duration of temporary disability benefits for workers with lower back injuries. The conclusion: long-term opioid prescriptions…
Uncategorized Legal Corner 25 Apr 201814 Apr 2018 FMLA Adverse actions shortly after medical leave spell trouble for employer In Schram v. Dow Corning Corp., E.D. Mich., while traveling for business a long-term employee was accidentally struck on…
Uncategorized HR Tip: ABA’s summary of 2017 FMLA cases 20 Apr 201814 Apr 2018 Every February, the American Bar Association's (ABA) Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee publishes a comprehensive report of FMLA decisions handed down by the federal courts in the previous year. This…
Uncategorized Things you should know 22 Dec 20178 Nov 2017 NCCI published a large set of changes to the Basic Manual While many of the changes are minor, such as replacing "insured" with "employer," here are some you should know:…
Uncategorized Things you should know 6 Sep 201710 Aug 2017 Return to work more likely with less-invasive back surgery A recent study of 364 Ohio workers diagnosed with degenerative spinal stenosis who underwent back surgery found that those who underwent…
