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Workers' Comp Performance: Teamwork Will Tip The Balance in 2014

By Diane Brown|August 04, 2014|English

There was a packed house at this year's National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) Annual Issues Symposium to hear papers presented under the heading "Visualizing the Trends - An Industry Snapshot." As usual, presentations were rich...
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Exoskeletons - It’s Not “Iron Man” but They’re Becoming a Reality

By Charlie Kingdollar |July 24, 2014|English

Exoskeletons are not easy to describe, but here it goes... They are battery-powered, wearable robotics, strapped onto the body to provide limb strength and mobility to legs and/or arms. They’re being marketed as an aid to increase worker production,...
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Workers’ Comp Has Some Health(care) Issues of Its Own

By Diane Brown|July 19, 2014|English

On the surface the Workers’ Compensation segment looks like it is in good health. The preliminary CY combined ratio declined 7 basis points to 101% in 2013, compared with 2012. Yet, the rating agency A.M. Best maintains its negative outlook on...
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Decisions, Decisions – Keeping Casualty Carriers Clued In

By Craig Beardsley |July 10, 2014|English

From sexual molestation to social host, ridesharing, dog bites and even backyard zip lining, our most recent Casualty Matters examined a range of important court cases that could be relevant to personal and commercial lines underwriters. Take the Pennsylvania...
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First U.S. Case of Illness Arising From Occupational Exposure to Nanomaterials

By Charlie Kingdollar |June 04, 2014|English

Gen Re has published past articles about the potential for occupational exposure to nanomaterials to cause latent illness. Recently, a study reported the first case in North America of a worker handling nanoparticles in a U.S. laboratory setting where...
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Predicting a New Toolkit for Claims Professionals

By Bill Lentz |January 22, 2014|English

Predictive analytics techniques are widely used in the insurance industry today, usually for actuarial and underwriting purposes. Using analysis of patterns in past events to model future outcomes or behaviors has made huge strides, largely thanks to...
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