Risk & Insurance

National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference Update 2020: Connection in Uncertain Times

Given the realities of the evolving pandemic crisis, it’s too soon to speculate on the viability of any in-person conference in 2020, and the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference® — National Comp — is no exception.

Posted: Jun 01, 2020

COVID-19 Isn’t the Only Illness We Need to Fear When Employees Return to the Workplace

When COVID-19 struck, many workers didn’t know that they would be leaving their offices for the last time for months. Dirty dishes were left in office sinks, lunch boxes stuck in shared fridges and plants wilting, unwatered, in abandoned cub...

Posted: May 29, 2020

4 Ways PTSD Can Make Workplace Injuries Tougher to Treat

If an injured worker is diagnosed with PTSD, it can create a variety of problems throughout the life cycle of a claim.  Advertisement

Posted: May 29, 2020

Goodbye Passwords and Hello Retinal Scans: How Believers in Biometrics Are Making Their Data Protect...

The global pandemic has pushed us all outside our comfort zone as individuals and as organizations. A crisis of this magnitude forces us to adapt, grow and, ultimately, transform. There is no question that our post-COVID-19 world will look very di...

Posted: May 29, 2020

COVID-19 and Business Interruption: Some Losses Are Covered and Here’s Why

It has been two months since COVID-19 began to turn the U.S. economy upside down. Suffering massive losses due to the damage caused by coronavirus, businesses have quickly turned to their insurance companies for assistance. Unfortunately, m...

Posted: May 28, 2020

Legal Roundup: McDonald’s Lack of PPE Lands Them in Court, FedEx Agrees to Settle EEOC Suit and More

McDonald’s Employees Claim Unsafe Working Conditions Amid COVID-19  The Case: A group of five McDonald’s workers and four of their family members in Chicago have sued the fast-food giant.

Posted: May 28, 2020

Opinion | Finding the ‘New Normal’ for Workers After COVID-19

As our May issue cover story by Jared Shelly illustrates, our work lives may never be the same post COVID-19. As disturbing and,...

Posted: May 28, 2020

Cryptocurrency Insurance: What Will It Take for the Market to Offer Coverage?

One of the major challenges confronting the cryptocurrency sector is the difficulty in finding insurers willing to cover losses. Along with a generally hardening marketplace, entities in the space must also contend with a dearth of historic...

Posted: May 27, 2020

Is COVID-19 a Black Swan Event? Let’s Do the Math

You may be tired of hearing about anything COVID-19 related. But despite many valiant efforts, an important question remains: Is COVID-19 a “black swan?” We must begin by defining a a “black swan” event. The concept was first coined by Nass...

Posted: May 26, 2020

Protected: COVID-19 Risks Threaten the Resiliency of Private Companies

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Posted: May 26, 2020

Go Ahead, Monitor Your Remote Workers; But You’d Better Hope HR and Risk Management Get It Right

The COVID-19 -forced experiment in letting employees work at home is changing the landscape of employment. Advertisement

Posted: May 26, 2020

Perspective | Let’s Be Honest, Social Inflation Is Just Greed by Another Name

Tottenham Hotspur is the only football (i.e. soccer) team I have ever supported. Decades of watching them, in the stands and on TV, have given me a deep understanding of the game, but one aspect eludes me completely. It’s the chanting. The...

Posted: May 26, 2020

Supply Chains Took a Hard Pandemic Hit. These Zurich Execs Offer Advice on Post-COVID-19 Resilience

The COVID-19 crisis hit global supply chains with a series

Posted: May 25, 2020

Telemedicine’s Fine, But What Happens When Injured Workers Don’t Have Access During a Pandemic?

During a recent webinar, Kimberly George, senior vice president of corporate development, M&A and healthcare for Sedgwick, posed a question that is on many workers’ comp professional’s minds: “With clinics closed, h...

Posted: May 21, 2020

7 Mental Health Myths — and Why They Matter in Workers’ Comp

When it comes to workplace injuries, mental illness often comes second to physical issues. Employers are focused on treating visible injuries, such as a broken bone or a strained muscle, and they often overlook symptoms of psychological stra...

Posted: May 21, 2020

Plummeting Premiums and Boatloads of Uncertainty: COVID-19 Will Hit Workers’ Comp as Hard as Any Lin...

Twenty years ago, the National Council on Compensation Insurance began choosing a word or short phrase each year to describe the workers’ comp market. Advertisement

Posted: May 21, 2020

140 Drones, Unwavering Risk Management and No Shortage of Heroes: How This Tech Company Thanked Phil...

When 140 drones lit up the sky above Franklin Field at the University of Pennsylvania on the evening of April 28, it was for one purpose only: to say thank you.  Advertisement

Posted: May 20, 2020

Is the CPCU the Instruction Manual of Insurance? Here’s What Designees Say

Editor’s Note: Risk & Insurance is an affiliate of The Institutes, which offers the CPCU The COVID-19 pandemic has made it abundantly clea...

Posted: May 19, 2020

Riding the Gray Wave: How Ergonomics Can Help You Master Workplace Safety for Older Workers

The demographics of humanity are evolving, and our species is growing older. In 2015, a report by the United Nations projected that

Posted: May 19, 2020

Preparing for an M&A? Better Check Your Cyber Coverage

Quantifying specific risks and best practices in managing cyber risk during mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is a bit like determining how many pages there are in a contract. Advertisement

Posted: May 19, 2020

Legal Roundup: Wisconsin Court Overturns Stay-at-Home, Funeral Home Faces Mutilation Charge and More

Wisconsin Supreme Court Overturns Stay-At-Home Orders The Case: Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin sued to remove stay-at-home orders meant to curb the spread of COVID-19. After the virus...

Posted: May 18, 2020