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Accidents become 23x more likely to happen when driving while texting. At any given moment over 800,000 drivers are on their cell phones. When you choose to text and drive, you’re threatening every single driver around you and placing more value on that text message than yourself and the drivers around you. Continue reading
Driving is a privilege! Unfortunately, this privilege is abused by cell phones. Not only are we making phone calls, taking phone calls, and using our phones as our mapping guides, but we’re actively holding conversations via text when our eyes, hands, and minds should be focused on the road. Continue reading
There’s no good reason to make an enemy of the claimant or, if in litigation, the opposing attorney. We reveal ourselves in our claims letters and their tone. Is the tone nasty? Negative? Arrogant? Your job is to make your point without, in any way, belittling your reader. Continue reading
WASHINGTON — The United States Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome M. Adams, issued a national advisory Thursday urging more Americans to keep on hand and learn how to use the drug naloxone, which can save the lives of people overdosing on opioids. Naloxone has already revived thousands of overdose victims as the opioid epidemic has intensified, but rescue workers have usually been the ones to administer it. Continue reading
Cigna Corp.’s $52 billion proposed acquisition of Express Scripts Holding Co. may eventually lead to lower drug costs for workers compensation payers, but it’s too early to tell how big those savings might be, experts say. Continue reading
Longer-term prescribing of opioids more than triples the duration of temporary disability among workers with work-related, nonsurgical, lower-back injuries when compared to claims with no opioid prescribing, according to a study released Thursday by the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Workers Compensation Research Institute. Continue reading
Employers are struggling to hire workers in tightening U.S. job market. Marijuana is now legal in nine states and Washington, D.C., meaning more than one in five American adults can eat, drink, smoke or vape as they please. The result is the slow decline of pre-employment drug tests, which for decades had been a requirement for new recruits in industries ranging from manufacturing to finance. Continue reading
Nevada Insurance Commissioner Barbara D. Richardson approved two filings from the National Council on Compensation Insurance, according to a Thursday statement from the Nevada Division of Insurance. Continue reading
