Innovation in advanced telemedicine is slowly enhancing the workers’ compensation industry and helping injured workers’ return to work sooner. Workers’ who are injured on the job find their life unexpectedly thrown into a tailspin, which can be very distressful. As they try to heal their
Surveillance technology has long been used by insurance companies to dispute worker’s compensation claims. An employee is videotaped or photographed in public view, doing something that “appears” to be outside their restrictions. And as technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, insurance companies keep
To minimize risks and mitigate loss, employers always hire the most productive employees and keep the workers’ insurance premiums low. For this reason, many employers are hesitant to hire new employees who pose higher risks in the future. These concerns are valid from the employer’s
The State of Vermont House of Representatives on April 13 advanced a bill that would make it easier for emergency workers’ compensation claims for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) up to three years after retirement and would also allow all workers in Vermont to file workers’
NPR and ProPublica found that nearly 800 undocumented workers in Florida have been charged with workers’ comp fraud for using illicit Social Security numbers to either get their jobs, file for workers’ compensation benefits or both. More than 560 didn’t actually file workers’ comp claims
The Oklahoma Supreme Court last month that it is unconstitutional to deny an injured employee workers' compensation benefits because of missed medical appointments. The ruling came in a case filed against Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. by Brandon Michael Gibby, who injured his right wrist and
The Georgia Court of Appeals agreed with a trial judge that an insurer must pay $100,000 in uninsured /underinsured motorist coverage to a car wreck victim, even though workers’ compensation had already paid him nearly twice that. Although the injured man did receive workers’
In 2013, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed into law the legislative changes applying to workplace injuries occurring on or after July 1, 2014. Among the law’s provisions was revamping the entire dispute-resolution process by moving it from civil courts to a purely administrative system
Workers compensation is a “no fault” system. Every state has laws and regulations mandating the prompt reporting of all injuries and accidents. Most of these laws are in place to protect the rights and benefits of injured workers. What many employers do not realize is
At any given time, one-in-five American adults suffers with a mental health condition that may impacts their daily life. Mental health conditions remain the most expensive health challenge in the nation along with cancer and heart disease. Mental health is the leading cause of