Inside Workers’ Comp Blog

Addressing Mental Health in the Workplace Using the Case Manager Approach

Tom Kerr | 06.21.19

Mental health has traditionally been considered a pariah in workers’ compensation claims management. The old way of thinking is that when psychological issues enter the picture, claim costs spin...

Have Five Times the Fun at RIMS19 - a User’s Guide

Posted on April 25, 2019

RIMS heads north to Boston this year, and while spring in New England is a marvel of its own, attendees will have no problem filling their agendas for one of the industry’s biggest conferences. So, with so much to do in a... Read More

Personalized Comp-the Starbucks Way

Posted on November 30, 2018

Once again, industry leaders will soon gather in Las Vegas to share ideas at the National Workers’ Comp and Disability Conference. Among those will be winners of the prestigious Teddy Awards for workers’ comp and disability... Read More

Are You Thankful for Workers’ Comp?

Posted on November 19, 2018

It’s time for a listener favorite, the annual Inside Workers’ Comp Thanksgiving special edition: What are You Thankful for in Workers’ Comp? This year, we pose the question to experts who serve three very different facets of... Read More

Kids’ Chance: An Extension of a Giving Industry

Posted on November 16, 2018

To the general public, workers’ compensation is often seen as a large government institution more than an effective health care system designed to improve the welfare of injured workers. Far too often, those in our industry... Read More

Kids’ Chance: Why it Matters

Posted on November 14, 2018

It’s Kids’ Chance Awareness Week and today we’re celebrating this life-changing organization by speaking with Melissa Potteiger, Genex area sales manager and Kids’ Chance ambassador. Read More

Five Initial Evaluation Issues That May Delay Return to Work

Posted on September 20, 2018

When there’s a return to work delay, practitioners often look for problems that occurred during the course of treatment. However, as Mariellen Blue, Genex’s National Director of Case Management Services, tells us in today’s... Read More

Sizing Up the Physical Demand Analysis

Posted on August 22, 2018

The workers’ comp industry is always searching for new ways to increase safety in the workplace. But there’s one tool that’s been available for quite some time that, if used more often, could go a long way to reaching this... Read More

Five Things to Love About WCI18

Posted on August 16, 2018

I hope you enjoyed your summertime respite from the busy workers’ comp conference circuit, because next week, our wake-up call is coming. That’s when thousands of us will board flights to Orlando to attend the grand kickoff... Read More

Top Five Reasons You’ll Love DMEC 18

Posted on July 31, 2018

Can’t-miss events abound at this year’s premier disability conference By Christi Doe, Director, ECN, a division of Genex Services Next week, one of my favorite industry events of the year kicks off in Austin, TX, as the... Read More

What’s BIG Diversity?

Posted on April 12, 2018

It’s mid-April, a time when my Outlook calendar begins to beep repeatedly in anticipation of the annual RIMS conference. While you surely have most of your regular appointments, sessions and events scheduled by now, I’d... Read More
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