Emerging Issues.
Hey Doc: Do You Really Want to Stop Your Patients From Smoking?
For patients who can’t quit smoking there are several reduced-harm alternatives. None of these alternative nicotine products are safe. They should not be used except as substitutes by patients who can’t quit. Below [...]
Workers’ Compensation – The News Continues to be Good For Some, Not So Good For Others (August 2023)
AM Best is the largest credit rating agency in the world specializing in the insurance industry. In a new report it characterized the workers’ compensation line of insurance as a “profit engine” for [...]
Workers’ Compensation – “And The Money Keeps Rolling In” – To Insurers – Take 3 (January 2023)
Since our last post in February 2021 reveals that the “unprecedented level of underwriting success” has continued unabated.
The Chicago Sun-Times Weighs In
The opponents to workers’ compensation reform in Illinois have consistently raised the argument that the 30% fee reduction ordered by the legislature in 2011 did not result in rate relief to Illinois employers [...]