Throughout 2020, our experts and thought leaders will monitor, share and explore the common threads that connect us all, and keep you tied into how they evolve to help us all prepare for the future.
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Sedgwick President and CEO David A. North will present the industry keynote address at the 68th Annual Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference and 25th Annual Safety & Health Conference on Monday morning, August 19. In a three-part Question & An…
New law reduces costs, preserves employee benefits, and provides new flexibility for employers
Sedgwick is highlighted for its sponsorship and release of a new white paper entitled, “Workers’ Compensation Deregulation Alert: What Employers Need to Know about the New Oklahoma Law.” Under the new Oklahoma law, employers can now leave the worke…
Sedgwick sponsored this study from the New Street Group. In early May, Oklahoma enacted what may be the most inventive workers’ compensation legislation of any state since the early decades of the 20th century. The new law, SB 1062, allows any employ…
As consumers, we all feel the effects – to varying degrees – of recessions and other forms of economic disruption. From a risk management point of view, this is economic risk for which some risk managers have direct responsibility. For the vast major…
Sedgwick Senior Vice President of Strategic Solutions, Chris Mandel, is featured in Business Insurance after participating on a panel at the 2013 International Conference on ISO 31000 in Toronto, Canada earlier this week. Addressing best-in-class ri…
On April 29, 2013, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed into law Senate Bill 200, known as the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Reform Act of 2013.
In part one of this blog discussion, we began to explore the reasons why employers today are looking for ways to more effectively manage drug utilization – particularly for costly and potentially addictive narcotics – within their workers' compensa…
Matthew Harmon has been named Business Insurance’s 2013 Benefits Manager of the Year. Matthew is Senior Director of Benefits at J.C. Penney Company, Inc. An independent panel of judges comprised of former honorees and benefits industry experts mad…
Prescription drug costs are becoming an increasing percentage of total workers’ compensation costs. Today, medication prices are rising faster than any other medical expenditure. Further, the expanded use of powerful narcotics and opioi…