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2007 Teddy Award Winners

The 2007 competition featured a winner in the new federal category and a too-close-to-call finish in the nonprofit sector ... and a tie for nonprofit Teddy Award winners Houston Independent School District and Riverside County of California. The inagural federal category winner was Red River Army Depot. And coming in as the for-profit Teddy Award winner: telecom giant AT&T.

Winner Profiles

Out of Many, One
2007-11-01

By Dan Reynolds

Centralized management and a program that empowers employees is creating success--and earning Riverside County the Theodore Roosevelt Workers' Compensation and Disability Management Award in the nonprofit category.

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Injury Intervention at Work

Flushing out the Frequent Flyers
2007-11-01

By Susan Gurevitz

Houston Independent School District claims manager Tom Dolan knew it was time to act when one employee had 17 claims in five years. How he dispelled such "frequent flyers" is what gained the district a 2007 Theodore Roosevelt Workers' Compensation and Disability Management Award in the nonprofit category.

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Stopping the Violence Spiral

Giving Costs the Boot
2007-11-01

By Melissa Turley

A federal workers' compensation case management team has slashed future long-term liability at a U.S. Army installation from around $60 million to $27 million. This stat can only in part explain why Red River Depot won this year's Theodore Roosevelt Workers' Compensation and Disability Management Award in the federal category.

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The Cost Controllers
2007-11-01

By Michelle Kerr

Absorbing the impact of two big mergers, the resilience of AT&T's Teddy Award-winning workers' compensation and disability management programs is a tribute to the teamwork that spawned them.

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