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Title	Type	Date	Words
A game changer.		Dec 1, 2009	548
The elephant in the room.		Nov 1, 2009	546
States of disparity: even though employers typically look only at insurance costs when sizing up a state, the relative level of benefits awarded claimants influences the effectiveness of a workers' compensation system.	Cover story	Nov 1, 2009	2885
Death of the loss run.		Oct 15, 2009	583
Premium abuse crackdown.		Oct 1, 2009	574
Two different states.		Sep 15, 2009	539
The LOC conundrum.		Sep 1, 2009	575
Dealing, with scar issues: Sodexo Inc., the global food facilities management company, responds to the needs of a new generation of civilian warriors.		Sep 1, 2009	3082
Let's talk healtheare reform.		Aug 1, 2009	526
Frayed obligations: the second part of our three-part series details the gap between the U.S. government's obligation to care for troops and the medical care actually extended to them after wounded soldiers return from war.	Cover story	Aug 1, 2009	1738
Laying off the risk.		Jul 1, 2009	571
Wounded back home: in the first of a three-part series, Risk & Insurance[R] workers' comp columnist Peter Rousmaniere explores the health, wellness and compensation burdens of America's returning military veterans.		Jul 1, 2009	2078
California in turmoil (again).		Jun 1, 2009	571
A brutal interpretation.		May 1, 2009	598
Purdue case won't be the last: we all hear about claimant fraud, medical provider fraud and premium fraud. Now there is drug manufacturer fraud which has fleeced pretty much every workers' compensation insurer and self-insured employer, and disrupted the lives of many claimants.		Apr 15, 2009	530
An emerging vision for employee health: the business of offering on-site corporate medical clinics as the new hub for health care cost containment is growing as employers challenge the traditional managed care business model.		Apr 15, 2009	1411
Dare to be simple.		Apr 1, 2009	566
How to winnow the pool.		Mar 1, 2009	553
The need to think.		Jan 1, 2009	542
Testing the system.		Dec 1, 2008	583
Two journeys, two outcomes: two cases illustrate the difference in outcomes and the importance of exercise and physical therapy in the rehabilitation of chronic pain cases.		Dec 1, 2008	2579
This recession's silver lining.		Nov 1, 2008	566
Carriers' chronic burden: about 5 percent of lost-time claimants have a significant chronic pain problem, but their claims account for about 30 percent of all lost-time claims payments in the first year alone.		Nov 1, 2008	2456
High tech sleuthing.		Oct 15, 2008	574
Wrestling with an insidious illness: chronic pain costs the workers' compensation system hundreds of millions of dollars every year, yet a coherent approach to the disease appears lacking.		Oct 15, 2008	2936
A stimulating debate.		Oct 1, 2008	560
A fishy deal.		Sep 15, 2008	573
Strengthening a covenant.		Sep 1, 2008	549
The insurance entrepreneur.		Aug 1, 2008	538
An honorable system no more.		Jul 1, 2008	564
New edition, new controversy.		Jun 1, 2008	588
Truth in advertising?		May 1, 2008	560
Mulling over Spitzer's legacy.		Apr 15, 2008	566
Joining the rescue: collaboration between the public and private sectors during an emergency can save money and lives.		Apr 15, 2008	1919
Painkillers out of control.		Apr 1, 2008	578
Aging matters.		Mar 1, 2008	605
Doctors aim for respect, then money: financial compensation is one thing, but increasingly doctors who provide expert care of injured workers want recognition for the quality of that care.		Mar 1, 2008	1967
Shipbreaking in Mumbai.		Feb 1, 2008	613
Has competition vanished? Coventry makes big gains in the workers' comp marketplace, but there's still plenty of room for alternative models.	Company overview	Feb 1, 2008	1911
What do risk managers want?		Jan 1, 2008	594
Lower costs, varied successes.		Dec 1, 2007	581
File a claim, get deported?		Nov 1, 2007	617
Funds rife with conflicts of interest: from California to Rhode Island, state-sponsored workers' compensation insurers suffer from the brazen misdeeds of managerial appointees. Our columnist offers remedies that are basic, but routinely ignored.		Nov 1, 2007	2641
Thinking hard on mental illness: the American Psychiatric Association unveiled new psychiatric tools for return-to-work this past summer. Our resident workers' comp and behavioral health guru has let them sink in and is ready to provide his two cents.		Nov 1, 2007	1441
Out of the ashes: another failure? That government failed the rescue, recover and cleanup workers of Sept. 11 is doubtless. Whether all levels of government can learn from their mistakes before the next catastrophe is the real "if.".		Nov 1, 2007	3533
Chronic pain: getting serious.		Oct 1, 2007	592
The disease within: disasters like Sept. 11 create hundreds of disease claims, but workers' comp systems are structured to reject these claims. Rescue, recovery and cleanup workers stand little chance of seeing a dime in compensation.		Oct 1, 2007	2313
Hard labor: day laborers worked hard to return Lower Manhattan to normalcy in the days following Sept, 11. Many of them were exposed to as much danger as the rescue crews crawling atop "the Pile.".		Oct 1, 2007	1419
The 'IT' thing in comp.		Sep 15, 2007	575
Why doctors boycott comp.		Sep 1, 2007	575
Up in smoke: how safety procedures evaporated during the cleanup of the World Trade Center and how it is now affecting thousands of workers and public employees.	Cover story	Sep 1, 2007	3284
World Trade Center: breach of trust: how Sept. 11 altered the nation's workers' compensation landscape and eroded the trust implicit between employer and employee.		Sep 1, 2007	600
The fresh eyes have it.		Aug 1, 2007	586
TPAs should disclose more.		Jul 1, 2007	538
Fixing comp by fixing errors.		Jun 1, 2007	578
Healing whole: a revolution in the way that employers handle their workers' behavioral issues is underfoot. A holistic approach to healing will empower employees to help themselves, and provide employers of all sizes with the tools to lead them along the way.	Cover story	Jun 1, 2007	3129
A grassroots movement.		May 1, 2007	558
Untangling the mysteries of employee performance: the eventual goal of catching employees before their breaking point is on hiatus while disability managers grapple with the ever-changing field of behavioral risk management.		May 1, 2007	1868
Open your e-mail.		Apr 15, 2007	574
Toil erosion: behavioral risks eat away at worker gains: behavioral risks cast a long shadow over American workers, many of whom carry with them issues that stretch beyond the workplace. And the burdens are not limited solely to the ranks of the blue-collar work force.		Apr 15, 2007	1707
The pandemic in your plans.		Apr 1, 2007	593
Work safety emerges in China.		Mar 1, 2007	587
A West Virginia transformation.		Feb 1, 2007	590
Door creaks open further.		Jan 1, 2007	544
Cascading into Collapse: when lawyers and vendors make decisions about adjusting a claim at the expense of adjusters, it is the beginning of the end of a claims organization.		Jan 1, 2007	1285
Crawling back from the brink: when a claims organization is infused with honesty and clarity, and supervisors have their noses buried in a diary, there's hope for happy endings.		Jan 1, 2007	1307
A new season of services.		Dec 1, 2006	558
Ranking the cost of comp: sometimes we want to know how a state is doing relative to others with regard to the cost of workers insurance, the efficiency of the insurance system and the adequacy of benefits. In this issue we present a snapshot. The findings will surprise you.		Nov 1, 2006	550
Choking on a clouded past.		Oct 15, 2006	625
New models ascendant: in the managed-care marketplace, case management is on the wane, and the practice of discounting provider fees is stalled. Quality of care, analytics and online connectivity are ascendant.		Oct 15, 2006	1268
Medicare set-asides without tears.	Interview	Oct 1, 2006	566
Concentra's clinical strategy.		Sep 15, 2006	582
What causes insurance cycles?		Sep 1, 2006	649
What London's 1666 fire says about Katrina: two devastating events, separated by 339 years, show how far risk management and insurance have, or haven't, come.		Sep 1, 2006	1512
Through the fraud vacuum.		Aug 1, 2006	615
Mary's mystery.		Jul 1, 2006	590
Behind Beacon's fall from Grace.		Jun 1, 2006	609
Facing a tough situation: employers hiring workers who live in the United States illegally risk fines and civil lawsuits. In addition, the huge size of the illegal work force is causing the workers' compensation system in some states to deteriorate.		Jun 1, 2006	2062
AG walks away from AIG.		May 1, 2006	607
Digging into the work fatality puzzle; it's not so easy to figure out what the most dangerous jobs are, despite what those Top 10 lists say. The key is piecing together the fatality puzzle at your particular work sites, for your particular workers.	Cover story	May 1, 2006	2026
How to avoid getting scalped.		Apr 15, 2006	655
The Cali drug war: a drug loophole has severe side effects for the California workers' comp system.		Apr 1, 2006	480
A guide to useful research.		Apr 1, 2006	606
The perils of pain management.		Mar 1, 2006	572
Conversant in the flat future.	Interview	Feb 1, 2006	586
Paralyzed by 'third rail' issues.		Jan 1, 2006	556
Casting a new safety net.		Dec 1, 2005	542
Rx, y, z for medical mgmt: Peter Rousmaniere has identified some current, albeit uncommon, insurer practices that could cut rising medical costs yet improve the quality of care for work injuries. And if that wasn't enough, he invited four executives working in three of the largest workers' compensation insurers to comment on them.		Dec 1, 2005	1448
A more dangerous place.		Nov 1, 2005	578
A mirror to your driving.		Oct 15, 2005	611
What Katrina tells us about TRIA.		Oct 1, 2005	580
Uplifting tales of innovation.		Sep 15, 2005	597
W.'s memo for the fall: White House interoffice memorandum. Eyes only.		Sep 1, 2005	534
How we misjudge health risks.		Sep 1, 2005	1398
Navigating the Rocks of Dim.		Aug 1, 2005	589
Pain drugs: are we addicted?		Jul 1, 2005	554
Rx costs out of control: a new study finds that employers are overpaying millions of dollars for drugs in workers' comp cases. The reason they are doing so is due to the shocking number of errors in filling prescriptions. How did such a system spin so far out of control and what needs to be done?		Jul 1, 2005	1343
Easier, faster, cheaper, better.		Jun 1, 2005	596
A challenge for RIMS.		May 1, 2005	579
A painful circus.		Apr 15, 2005	579