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Analytic results are shared at board meetings and lavishly portrayed at marketing shindigs, but there is little impact on decisions made by middle managers and front-line workers.

What happens when an employee has a car accident while off work but while making business calls on a personal cell phone? Is he entitled to workers’ comp?

No one knows what is coming with Medicare Set Asides. We are blindly hoping that all this effort will somehow end up doing what was intended. Trust me; this is not going to end well.

The utilization of this book-end strategy allows for unprecedented access to information and allows for better treatment in workers' compensation cases.

With 2013 now behind us, here are my thoughts on the workers’ compensation issues to watch in 2014.

Network administrators are gradually stepping up to the challenge of shifting to smart networks. Momentum toward smart networks will be exponential with payer participation, resulting in quality improvement and cost control all around.

The only effective way to guard against misinformation regarding captives is to talk to qualified professionals who have nothing to sell but advice.

A number of societal, legal, and demographic developments will affect this venerable line of business as it moves into its second century.