Peter Rousmaniere

A major study identifies the “top three” practices that organizations should adopt to join their successful peers.

Advocacy models – which treat the worker as a whole person – are better equipped to control or eliminate psychosocial factors during recovery.

Washington wants to federalize enough to increase benefits but not to be in charge of every wheel spinning every weekday at 9 a.m.

Workers' comp payers should move away from a compliance-oriented, adversarial style to an “advocacy” style of claims management.

Research on workers' comp focuses on soaring costs in the industrial-medical complex, but workers get lost in the shuffle. That must change.

"Conservative care" needs to supplant opioids in the treatment of chronic pain -- premiums would plunge and workers would benefit.

As workers' comp claims dwindle, providers should offer "absence management" -- handling loss of work time for any reason, not just injury.

Much of the discussion on the Oklahoma Option is accurate but not complete. It is easy to absorb a part of the story.

The workers' compensation industry will emulate Walmart and take a much more disciplined approach to its supply chain.

One out of every 10 injured workers faces the risk of criminal prosecution and deportation simply for submitting a legitimate workers' compensation claim.