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Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke
When working outdoors in hot weather, workers who do not take precautions can suffer from heat exhaustion or heat stroke. Heat exhaustion…Read more →Health Care Spending Law in San Francisco
Under the 2006 law, employers with 100 or more employees are required to spend $2.20 per hour per covered employee on health…Read more →Risk Control: Fire Safety Plan
Introduction The development of a Fire Safety Plan (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”) will help ensure the optimum use fire prevention…Read more →Good Laptop Ergonomics
You see them everywhere carrying their laptops. They are businesses’ “Road Warriors” with offices-on-the-go. These offices on-the-go are allowing people to work…Read more →LOSS CONTROL & BACKGROUND CHECKS
Inadequate due diligence and negligent hiring practices in the home health sector harms not only an organization, but its patients,…Read more →Insuring Cloud Computing
While cloud computing may seem vague and confusing, the National Institute of Standards and Technologies recently completed a working definition for the…Read more →Public Servant Wins Compensation Over Work Trip Sex Injury
An Australian public worker has won the workers comp. claim hearing, for the injury she got having sex in a motel during…Read more →California Workers Compensation Rate Increase?
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California said Wednesday that it will seek a midyear increase in workers comp advisory rates…Read more →How to Manage Work Related Stress
What Is Workplace Stress? People experience stress in many parts of their lives. Although stress is an essential element of many activities at…Read more →CA Work Comp Carriers Change Rates
Several California admitted insurance companies are going to file new rates with the California Department of Insurance for workers’ compensation policies effective…Read more →Workers Comp. Electronic Claims Reporting in New York
The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board is transitioning from a paper to an electronic employer report of injury system. The board…Read more →California Workers Comp Agreements Review
California’s Department of Insurance is seeking to force units of Zurich Financial Services Ltd. to cease issuing workers compensation “large-deductible agreements” that…Read more →Make insurance the easiest thing on your to-do list.
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