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Speculation is rife about what will happen with healthcare in 2014. Now one of the first predictors has publicly voiced its opinion. On Wednesday, I read with great interest that Moody's revised its outlook for the U.S. healthcare sector to negativ…
For many employers today, management of the direct and indirect costs of absence and the need to improve employee productivity are critical competitive issues. More effective absence management has become a key initiative. As a result, integrated …
Sedgwick Senior Vice President, Medical Quality, Dr. Teresa Bartlett, talks about the impact of specialty drugs can have on workers’ compensation costs when they are used to treat chronic or complex medical conditions.
Every day, valuable employees are absent from work resulting in lost productivity. It has never been more important to understand the impact of absenteeism on your business in order to get employees back on the job sooner, simplify the process, and i…
My mom suffers from vascular dementia. It's a progressive, slow, debilitating disease. As a non-medical person new to the maze of healthcare and elderly care, there was a lot to learn. My mom's in a nursing home 10 minutes from my house and I am now …
Sedgwick President & CEO, Dave North, talks about how employers can best influence positive changes to workers’ compensation legislation. He describes how such changes were recently achieved in California and Oklahoma. He advises employers to speak…
Recently I was featured on WorkCompWire.com in a Leaders Speak article discussing the top trends to watch in 2014. To begin the dialogue on these important topics, my colleagues and I created "Foresight for '14," which covers seven s…
Sedgwick forecasts the top seven risk and productivity management trends in “Foresight for ’14”
Dave North advises that the employers who manage these types of changes will likely enjoy greater success during the coming year.
Risks to an increasingly modernized, technological and integrated society have greatly increased our threat of events with catastrophic consequences. Frequency and scale of these events as well as natural disasters are increasing along with the econo…
The Okla. Supreme Court ruled Dec. 16 in a 7-to-1 decision that clears the path for implementing Senate Bill 1062, which is slated to take effect Feb. 1, 2014.
In early 2013, Sedgwick advised clients of the top trends expected to impact employers this year from the Affordable Care Act: a change in the healthcare delivery model – to economic and market forces: how they will drive employer actions. Looking…