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When it comes to workers' comp, here's a hand to double down on: a gathering of the nation's foremost experts on everything from claims management to return-to-work.

Changes to the legal terrain on both federal and state levels pose a challenge to workers' comp stakeholders. The slowing decrease in claims frequency and all its reasons pose another.

Business continuity management can solve your business' potential and live-action crises, from product liability and recalls to international intellectual-property issues. You just have to know which standards to follow.

Two of the world's largest automakers are also two of the biggest success stories when it comes to ergonomics and worker safety.

Gisele Posey was introduced to co-workers more than three years ago as the woman who was going to save Kindred Healthcare $10 million. In three years she produced savings that tripled that expectation and is on the hunt for more.

A new survey finds that nearly half of high performers are actively looking for other jobs. Why are they seeking greener pastures and what are companies doing to keep them?

Nursing is the most important facet to focus on to avoid hospital errors and the medical-malpractice claims that follow. Being short-staffed is a liability all unto itself. But new RN hiring is not the quick fix.

What have innovators in risk management and insurance done for you lately? Plenty, as it turns out. They just do it quietly and with little fanfare. That makes them sometimes hard to spot, but the time has come to recognize their contributions.

Dreyer, Puccia, Easop, Mosher, Mohrenweiser--the five ratings analysts who can strike fear or spell relief in the heart of every risk manager.

How well did the models do, seven years after Sept. 11, 2001? The modeled preferences--sabotage, conflagration, aircraft attacks, and the use of standoff weapons--have corresponded closely to those observed worldwide, with one or two exceptions: fewer big-yield bombs than expected, and fewer surface-to-air missile attacks on commercial aircraft.

For now, the stalemate between the forces of radicalism and the coalition of moderate states assures a status quo, according to terrorism risk analysts. How long the equilibrium will last is anyone's guess.

Some companies like to hold onto their risk, finding creative in-house ways to fund and mitigate their exposures. Many risk managers like to hold onto their companies, expanding their career and their position with creativity and dedication.

Bill Zachry is hitting his stride as vice president of risk management at Safeway Inc. while also cranking up the pace of workers' comp reform for the entire state of California. Physicians, claimants and anyone else committing fraud or mischief, look out.

Treating claims as active, breathing entities with their own characteristics, needs and timelines is the best way to insure the most efficient processing of them.

What does the SCHIP Extension Act claim reporting requirements have to do with the Medicare Secondary Payer Law? Directly, nothing--indirectly, everything.