Property Casualty 360: The opioid epidemic in workers' comp
Employers can use these five strategies to manage opioid issues in their organizations and help injured workers heal.
Employers can use these five strategies to manage opioid issues in their organizations and help injured workers heal.
Learn how Genex's vocational case management helped a young machine operator recover from a traumatic hand injury, return to work, and save his employer retraining costs.
Explore key workers' comp provider industry trends, including consolidation, network adequacy, and strategies.
Discover how coordinated care and the integration of durable medical equipment empowered a security guard with spinal injuries to gain independence and reduce reliance on home health care.
The growing trend of remote and hybrid work models has introduced new regulatory challenges to be addressed for the workers' compensation industry. While the COVID-19 pandemic created a seismic shift in the U.S. labor market, with a record 47 million Americans voluntarily quitting their jobs in 2021, according to analysis from the Harvard Business Review, this mass exodus was not simply an anomaly driven by the pandemic. Rather, it resulted from the convergence of five key factors that are reshaping today’s workforce—retirement, relocation, reconsideration, reshuffling and reluctance.
In Q1 2024, electric vehicle (EV) repairable claims frequency rose to 2.26% in the United States and 3.41% in Canada, an increase of approximately 40% and 38% respectively over Q1 2023. Tesla price reductions late last year spurred precipitous price drops throughout the EV segment. As a result, price parity between EVs and vehicles with an internal combustion engine (ICE) may be coming faster than previously predicted.
Summer’s finally here and, as the weather warms up, it also creates some real issues for employees across the U.S. To talk about this issue in more detail, Melissa Martinez, RN, BSN, clinical operations manager of Enlyte’s ClinicalCare24 program, offers strategies to prevent and treat heat-related issues on the job