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Best Practices for Supporting Mental Health in Comp
There’s a heightened awareness in our industry on how psychosocial factors impact an injured employee’s recovery.
Channeling Your Inner Resilience to Foster Return to Work and Productivity
No one is without misfortune and setbacks in life, but one could argue that some seem to face more challenges than others. Take the beloved Peanuts character, Charlie Brown. Charlie’s life seems to be filled with constant defeat, yet he keeps forging ahead, and even celebrates the occasional “win.”
Business Insurance: Early intervention and treatment best practice for psych claims
More than a dozen states have laws that make mental injuries compensable under certain conditions, and the workers' compensation industry is
Business Insurance: Mental health front and center in comp claims
Mental health treatment, once avoided in workers' compensation claims that did not involve a compensable psychological injury, is now on the
Exploring the Psych Effects of COVID and Emergence of PTSD in Comp
None of us have gone untouched by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is especially true for frontline workers who care for the critically ill. So, in part three of our series on mental health’s impact on workers’ comp, we’re going to look at the psychosocial effects the pandemic continues to play on our society and how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become a term used more often in our industry. Joining me today are our experts, Nikki Wilson, Tammy Bradly, and Mariellen Blue.
Proven track records create a winning formula for injured workers’ recoveries
The more we work with those who get hurt on the job and the more we study the best outcomes for what went right, it’s clear that effective, high-quality medical care plays an essential role.