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Vice President Biden Files Workers Compensation Claim

They say you can not believe everything that is on the Internet.. but I am not so sure about this. According to the Onion, Vice President Biden is collecting workers compensation benefits for spraining his back in the Rose Garden. The complete article is in the link below.

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Workers Compensation Insurance Industry Beginning To Turn Around….VERY Slowly.

The link below discusses the improving trends in the workers compensation markets. While many carriers are still recovering from a period of poor returns between 2006 -2010, there does seem to be some encouraging signs recently that profits at the carriers have increased as a result of lower losses and higher premiums in most industry categories.

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Social Media Can Help In The Battle To Fight Workers Compensation Insurance Fraud

The Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation Commission (BWCC) was researching an employee’s workers compensation claim that she was not able to work because of her health issues following a work related accident. — for which she was collecting work comp benefits. A visit by the BWCC to her Facebook site and her other on line accounts indicated that she was on another job working, while collecting benefits.

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Co Morbidity- And Its Effect On Your Workers Compensation Insurance Rates

Here is an excellent article about the “potential health risks” that your applicants may be bringing with them when they work with your agency. Co morbidity is a significant reason that medical costs are increasing in the workers compensation arena. For example, the US population is generally less healthy in terms of obesity than it was 40 years ago.

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Work Comp Staffing Solutions Featured in Latest USSA Magazine

In the May/June issue, the United States Staffing Association has featured StaffingCompSolutions.com. The article focuses on the growing popularity of Professional Employer Organizations (PEO) as a solution to solving staffing companies growing workers compensation insurance challenges.

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Spaniards Give Their Workers Compensation System A Hand

This vignette about workers compensation insurance and unemployment fraud in Spain is almost too unbelievable. Below is the link to the article that will make you cringe, laugh, and cry — almost all at the same time – So if you think the US workers compensation system has its problems, just be grateful you are not an employer in Spain.

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Affordable Care Act — What’s Your Game Plan?

Today there are many staffing experts offering options about how to minimize your cost exposure under the ACA. Most of these experts  agree that after January 1, 2013, the US labor market, and in particular the staffing industry will be very different.  Maybe good and...

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