During the height of the pandemic, New York workers’ compensation indemnity payments increased while medical payments decreased. That’s according to...
Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) News
A Delaware workers’ compensation law passed in 2014 has succeeded in lowering workers’ compensation medical claim costs, new research shows....
Chiropractors are involved in only a small fraction of workers’ compensation claims for low back pain in states where insurers...
Workers’ compensation insurers have slashed spending on opioids, reducing the risk of addiction and delayed recovery, but now they are...
People Moves: WCRI Adds Negrusa; WTW’s Atkinson, Pokora Move to Marsh; WTW Appoints Drummond, Romano
The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) announced that Dr. Sebastian Negrusa has joined the Cambridge, Mass.-based Institute to manage its...
COVID-19 did not delay medical treatment for workers’ compensation claimants, but did decrease the amount of emergency care and other...
Despite potential obstacles posed by the coronavirus pandemic, injured workers experienced no meaningful delays in access to medical treatment under...
The percentage of COVID-19 claims among all workers’ compensation paid claims has varied greatly among states and occupations, as has...
While at least 17 states have passed laws or issued orders that expanded access to workers’ compensation benefits for employees...
The good news is that doctors are less likely to prescribe opioids to injured workers than they were years ago....