With COVID-19 applying pressure to profit margins, now is an ideal time to evaluate strategy in handling claims, focusing on methods primarily designed to promote cost-containment.

Injury and death resulting from falls can often be prevented. When three government agencies led by OSHA joined forces to provide education and enforcement of fall prevention methods, they devised a three-step plan your company can use to develop a workplace fall prevention program:

Jennifer Kline, 54, started her law career in 1992, representing employers and insurance companies in workers’ compensation claims. She later joined Katherman, Briggs and Greenberg LLP and began representing employees in those cases.

Pennsylvania business can expect to pay less this year for workers’ compensation insurance due to an expected decline in the amount of money insurers will pay out.

From an employer's perspective, long-term opioid use will likely equate to a high exposure claims with costly medical expenses, sometimes totaling thousands per month.