The WC Roundup is proud to be hosting the 185th Cavalcade of Risk. This bi-weekly blog is a collection of risk-related posts covering topics from finance, to insurance, to health.
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“The 5Cs to Taking a Bulletproof Injured Worker Recorded Statement”
It’s a Salad Dressing AND a Cancer Screen!
Blog: InsureBlog, http://insureblog.blogspot.com/
Author: Henry Stern, LUTCF, CBC
InsureBlog reports on a surprising “off label use” that can help reduce the risk of cervical cancer death. Read more…
Blog: Healthcare Economist, http://healthcare-economist.com/
Author: Jason Shafrin
Although an Oregon study getting headlines found that Medicaid does not affect health outcomes, new research from Wisconsin may contradict these findings. Read more…
Life Insurance For Overweight & Obese People
Blog: Rootfin Life Insurance Blog, http://www.rootfin.com/blog/
Author: Jeff Root – jeff@rootfin.com
If you’re overweight and/or obese, you’re probably having a hard time finding affordable life insurance rates. If this is the case, we’ve written this article just for you. Did you know that every life insurance company has different height and weight charts? Read more…
How Much Life Insurance Do You Need At Different Stages In Your Life?
Blog: BryanMaltier.com – Personal Finance, http://bryanmaltier.com
Author: Bryan Maltier
Everyone, or at least most everyone, knows how important life insurance is. And one of the largest contributing factors to the price of your policy is the amount of coverage you purchase. In this post, Jeff Rose of Good Financial Cents discusses how much life insurance you need at different stages in your life, from your 30s and 40s to 60s and 70s. Read more…
Surprising Home Insurance Facts Every Homeowner Needs to Know
Blog: The Insurance Protection Blog: http://www.weissins.com/blog
Author: RJ Weiss
Breaking down a standard home insurance policy to identify what is and what’s not covered. Read more…
Doctors Moving Away From Independent Practice – What That Means For Patients
Blog: Colorado Health Insurance Insider, http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/
Author: Louise
The split between employed physicians and independent physicians used to be 40% and 60% (not sure how long ago that was) and that those numbers have now flipped: 60% of physicians are now employed by a hospital or other large medical group, with only 40% remaining independent.
There are a couple questions to be asked with this. Is this switch inevitable? Will almost all doctors be “employed” a decade or so from now? And is this an overall benefit for patients, doctors, and the cost of healthcare, or should we be working to try to retain as many independent medical practices as possible? I would say that the answers depend on who’s being asked.” Read more…
Keeping the Big Dominoes from Falling
Blog: Political Calculations, http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/
Author: Ironman
Can the failure of a single, small entity possibly cause the collapse of a much larger entity? Ironman at Political Calculations starts by setting off a chain reaction of ever-increasing in size falling dominoes before diving into crime and finding the connections to the risk and prevention of a cascading failure in the world’s financial systems. Read more…
Obamacare and Entrepreneurship
Blog: Health Business Blog, http://www.healthbusinessblog.com/
Author: David Williams
There seems to be a declining culture of risk taking and entrepreneurship in this country, which is harming economic growth and job creation. Obamacare provides a boon to entrepreneurship by making it easier for people to leave their jobs. Read more…
Workers Compensation, Employment, and Disability Laws
Blog: Workers Comp Roundup, https://blog.reduceyourworkerscomp.com/blog/
Author: Rebecca Shafer
The various aspects of hiring, accommodating, providing modified duty in the case of workers’ compensation and firing an employee with a disability can be tricky. But being informed and communicating policies clearly takes the mystery out of managing disabled workers and those who may become disabled following a work-related injury. Read more…
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Author Rebecca Shafer, JD, President of Amaxx Risk Solutions, Inc. is a national expert in the field of workers compensation. She is a writer, speaker, and publisher. Her expertise is working with employers to reduce workers compensation costs, and her clients include airlines, healthcare, printing/publishing, pharmaceuticals, retail, hospitality, and manufacturing. She is the author of the #1 selling book on cost containment, Workers Compensation Management Program: Reduce Costs 20% to 50%. Contact:RShafer@ReduceYourWorkersComp.com.
