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Fresh Health Wonk Review; also - the power of pink, the bunkhouse rule, and more

Posted on February 18, 2010
Clear the decks - it's Health Wonk Review day and Brady Augustine has posted Health Wonk Review: "The Relationship Rescue" edition over at medicaidfirstaid. It's a Dr. Phil-themed issue replete with art, videos, and commentary on some of the best of the health policy blogosphere...

Record workers comp-related ADA payout

Posted on February 17, 2010
An employer's failure to to accommodate an injured worker to return to the workplace can be costly - just ask Sears Roebuck & Co., who learned the hard way. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) just announced that Sears will distribute $6...

Risk Management, Family Style

Posted on February 16, 2010
We have been following with increasing amazement the saga of Amy Bishop, the Harvard-educated biology professor who certainly is in touch with her rage, if not much else. She was involved in a year-long conflict with the University of Alabama-Huntsville over tenure...

Toyota: Success is Dangerous

Posted on February 11, 2010
It will be years before we know the full implications of Toyota's recall problem, but a few things are already evident. In its relentless push to become the world's number one car manufacturer, Toyota lost its corporate soul (to the extent, of course, that any corporation has a soul)...

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Fresh Cavalcade of risk; new sidebar resources

Posted on February 10, 2010
A new issue of Cavalcade of Risk has just been posted at John Leppard's blog, Healthcare Manumission. Check it out! Check out our sidebar resources In other matters, we'd like to direct your attention to our sidebar of resources, which you can find over in the right hand column of this blog...

The Medicare Secondary Payer Statute: In Search of Ariadne?s Thread

Posted on February 08, 2010
In Greek mythology, Daedalus built the Labyrinth for King Minos of Knossos to contain the awful half bull/half man Minotaur. Theseus eventually killed the Minotaur, but only found his way out of the Labyrinth because Ariadne had given him a magic thread to mark his way in and out of the maze...

Health Wonk Review and other news briefs

Posted on February 05, 2010
Get the latest scoop from the health policy blogosphere at this week's excellent "Health Wonk Review - so what do we do now?" edition. Joe Paduda at Managed Care Matters is our most capable host this week. Kudos to Joe, who is the visionary and founder of Health Wonk Review, a biweekly compendium of best posts from more than 80...

Toyota: Hands Off!

Posted on February 03, 2010
Toyota, the world's largest automaker, is in the midst of a public relations nightmare. Over two million vehicles have been recalled for a problem with acceleration: gas pedals are prone to sticking, which leads to unstoppable cars hurtling along at high speeds...

Twitter feeds we recommend

Posted on February 02, 2010
For workers' comp news and other links in between blog posts, we encourage you to follow @workcompinsider on Twitter. If you aren't yet on Twitter, you may want to think about it. Even if you aren't ready to engage, it can be a great way to follow industry buzz...

One Toke Over the Line

Posted on February 01, 2010
My colleague Julie Ferguson raised some fascinating issues relating to the growing movement to approve marijuana as a medication. As is so often the case, the implications for workers comp diverge substantially from general health issues. A toke may be just what the doctor ordered for pain management, but in the context of the workplace, any such prescriptions are likely...

The current buzz on medical marijuana and the workplace

Posted on January 28, 2010
In our news roundup Wednesday, we cited a few items about medical marijuana, the most interesting to our purposes being the recent California court ruling about whether marijuana should be covered as a workers' comp medical benefit. In his posting on the topic, Roberto Ceniceros notes that there is a growing likelihood that medical marijuana will become a comp issue...

Cavalcade of Risk and an assortment of workers' comp news briefs

Posted on January 27, 2010
It's Cavalcade of Risk day - visit the bi-weekly roundup of posts about risk, graciously hosted this week at Wenchy's Place - check out this week's edition and wish the hostess a happy birthday while there. In other workers' comp-related news: Medical costs and WC - Joe Paduda explains why you should expect work comp medical costs to be heading...

Instant Message, Instant Catastrophe

Posted on January 25, 2010
Robert Sanchez operated Metrolink trains in the Los Angeles area. By all accounts, he was a personable fellow. You might say, nice to a fault. He occasionally invited young passengers to take control of the train. He stayed in touch with train enthusiasts and friends via texting...

Health Wonk Review and other news briefs

Posted on January 21, 2010
It's Health Wonk Review week and our host is Jaan Sidorov at Disease Management Care Blog. He's just posted the "Tree of Blogs": An Avatar Movie Inspired Health Wonk Review. Jaan must be of the "spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down" philosophy because he always manages to post the HWR news in an entertaining format...

In Search of a Good Cup of Joe

Posted on January 20, 2010
We recently blogged a "to and fro" case involving a meandering motorcycle ride back to work from a conference. The cycle crashed and the employee filed for workers comp. The court in Wyoming determined that the accident took place during a deviation from the direct route home and thus was not compensable...

Older Workers and Comp: Low Risk and A Few Surprises

Posted on January 19, 2010
NCCI has issued its latest report (PDF) on the status of older workers in the comp system, with a particular focus on workers 65 and up. If nothing else, the study reinforces the notion that older workers are safety conscious and a relative bargain. For employers worried about workers comp costs, older workers are not a significant problem...

New blog discoveries for our blogroll

Posted on January 18, 2010
We're in the process of updating our blogroll to add some blogs that we've been following, as well as to delete some old favorites that have become inactive. Here are a few of the blogs we've added - check them out: Work Comp Complex Care Blog - affiliated with Total Medical Solutions, a FL-based firm that focuses on home health...

Want to Avoid Alzheimer's? Just Keep Talking

Posted on January 15, 2010
In the interests of keeping Insider readers mentally alert for as long as possible, we present the results of a study that appeared in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (and is summarized in the Wall Street Journal). The study found that long-term cell phone use appears to protect against and even reverse Alzheimer's-like symptoms in mice...

Haiti

Posted on January 14, 2010
As the world watches in horror and hopelessness, the people of Haiti are trying to extricate themselves from one of the great natural disasters of our lifetime. As I write, thousands of people are still alive, trapped beneath the rubble of what was once Port-Au-Prince...

Cavalcade of Risk and other news briefs

Posted on January 13, 2010
The first Cavalcade of Risk of the new decade has been posted by Louise of Colorado Health Insurance Insider - check it out. And while you're visiting the Cavalcade, why not check out the rest of the entries on the C.H.I.I. blog? We don't live in Colorado, but if we did, we'd definitely be doing business with Jay and Louise...

To and a Meandering Fro

Posted on January 12, 2010
Richard Selest worked for the state of Wyoming Department of Transportation. He was asked to attend a training session 100 miles away from his office. Given the nice June weather, Richard, his supervisor and a co-worker decided to ride their motorcycles...

From Hedge Funds to Comp Board: A Welcome to Jeffrey Fenster

Posted on January 11, 2010
Back in June we blogged the resignation of Zach Weiss from one of the more difficult jobs in America: head of New York's workers comp board. Weiss had been appointed by former governor Elliot Spitzer (whose libidinous indiscretions, we note in passing, were relatively modest, at least when judged by the new standard set by Tiger Woods)...

A Toke In Time

Posted on January 08, 2010
Six years ago Robin Hove was working as a security guard. The Saskatchewan resident became entangled with a shoplifter. In the course of the struggle, an open cut in the shoplifter's mouth bled onto Hove: "The blood came pouring out of his mouth, into my eyes and into my mouth and I was just drowning in it...

Special Edition of Health Wonk Review & other news briefs

Posted on January 07, 2010
At The Health Care Blog, Brian Klepper has posted a Special Edition of Health Wonk Review: American Health Care Reform: Observations From Health Care Analysts. If you want to know what's going on with health care reform, this is a thoughtful and selective compendium from experts that deserves your attention...

Emerging technologies: Freedom legs, bionic fingers, gastric condoms

Posted on January 06, 2010
It's been some time since we've made a foray into one of our favorite topics: emerging health technology, particularly in the area of rehabilitative and assistive technologies. We've compiled a few stories that we found fascinating and promising. If you enjoy them and and would like to read more, we point you to the following excellent sources: Always: Medgadget and...

Donning and Doffing Quashed

Posted on January 04, 2010
Way back in November 2005 we blogged the interesting issue of donning and doffing: whether the time meatpackers spend at the beginning of work putting on protective gear and taking it off at the end of the shift is time on task and compensable. The 2005 ruling of the U...

A (Moderate) Toast to the New Year

Posted on December 31, 2009
We conclude this bi-polar year with a risk-related story that is both a phenomenal high and a pathetic low. In what appears to be a record-breaking performance - at least for South Dakota - police found Marguerite Engel passed out behind the wheel of a stolen delivery truck...

Risk Management and the Vectors of Life

Posted on December 29, 2009
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was depressed and lonely, so he decided to blow up an airplane. He boarded a Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day with explosives strapped to his underwear. (The Freudians will have a field day with that one...

The risks of being Santa

Posted on December 23, 2009
In one final post before we check out for the holidays, we'd like to offer an update on Santa. Our friends at the Renaissance Group have looked at the various types of insurance it takes to cover Santa's operations in their post Protecting the big guy...

"No, Edith, There is No Sanity Clause"

Posted on December 22, 2009
You probably never heard of Gilby, North Dakota, population 226. Edith Johnson, 56, worked as a teller in the town's bank, which, somewhat surprisingly, has been robbed three times. Edith was in the bank during two of the robberies. The last one was especially traumatic: she was handcuffed and placed face down on the floor with a sawed off shotgun...

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