EHS Today recently hosted a webinar focusing on the hallmarks of successful environmental health and safety programs on a global scale: Insights from a 5-Year Journey in Global EHS Transformation: Employee Engagement, Safety Leadership, and Synergy across Data and Processes.
A recent report from Lockton is receiving attention for some startling statistics regarding claim denial in workers’ comp. The study authors found that 67 percent of initially denied claims convert to accepted claims within 12 months.
Digital company Pie Insurance has begun selling its lower-priced small business workers’ compensation insurance policies online in Louisiana, as well as Colorado and Texas. The insurtech now sells in seven states. Pie markets Read full story
The last decade has witnessed a near-constant refrain among industry experts that insurance is quickly becoming an aging sector. On a local level, the University of Louisiana Monroe’s (ULM) Department of Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) is hard at work to fill the gap, under the leadership of Christine Berry, Associate Professor of Risk Management and Insurance.
The Seventh Annual Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference, held February 2nd and 3rd at the Renaissance hotel in Baton Rouge featured topical sessions on state regulation, opioids, return-to-work, and a range of other issues. One standout included a point/counterpoint style debate between Office of Workers’ Compensation (OWC) Deputy Director Pauline Williams and LCTA Executive Vice-President Troy Prevot about Louisiana’s Second Injury Fund.
The WCAC has weighed in on the major bills as they stand in their original form, as several measures proceed in Committee this week. Stick with Louisiana Comp Blog for full coverage of that meeting and all comp-related legislative happenings until the Session ends on June 6th.
New Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration (OWCA) Director and former Chief Workers’ Compensation Judge Sheral Kellar held her first Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council (WCAC) meeting yesterday at the LABI conference center in Baton Rouge. After introducing herself to the assembled stakeholders, Kellar addressed several pending administrative issues, including the Arrant v. Acree Supreme Court decision, the hiring process for a new Medical Director, and CLE credit for pro bono representation.
The final installment of “Comp Blog Commemorates K10” features Mark Tullis, Administrator of LCI Workers’ Comp and native New Orleanian, as he reveals his evacuation and recovery experience and what he’s learned a decade later.
