Elevating the Standards of Workers’ Recovery: Employer Style

With buzz surrounding the advocacy-based claims model and focus on workers’ recovery, employers are often not sure where to begin. Here are three simple steps to improve your workers’ compensation program starting today. Acknowledgment. Acknowledge the injury, especially if it is unquestionable. Please pause for a moment before you continue reading and take yourself to the 20,000 foot view. You are not admitting fault… you are acknowledging something transpired…something happened.…

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Why Psychosocial Issues Matter

Let me take you back six months, or maybe 18-months… where we were hitting what was referred to as “the wall of the pandemic”, where people were feeling isolated and lonelier than ever. Remember when the holidays were over, and spring still felt like an eternity away? I remember those winters, where Mother Nature put forth an elongated winter, or so it felt, extending across a vast majority of the…

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Why Workers’ Recovery?

The workers’ compensation industry needs a serious pep talk. Many have lost sight of the original intent of workers’ compensation, to take care of the injured worker. When messaging is added in from the outside world, it appears that everyone is against the injured worker or out to get them, especially the big bad insurance companies. While many of us know this is not the reality, messaging has substantial impact.…

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Words Matter…. But Don’t Overthink It!

In a prior article, I wrote about “The Difference Between Workers’ Compensation and Workers’ Recovery ” and I said that words matter. They do, but as we consider what’s ultimately important, let’s not overthink it. “Workers’ compensation” or “workers’ recovery?”  To help answer this continuing question, perhaps we should first consider the history of our industry and where the term “workers’ compensation” likely started.  Workers’ comp laws replaced cumbersome, expensive and…

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The Point Webinar – The Future of Whole Person Recovery Management

The Point - A Webinar Series Wednesday, November 30, 2022 @ 1:00 PM Eastern In this new webinar series from WorkCompCollege.com, Hosts Bob Wilson and Judge David Langham, who formerly hosted the popular "Hot Seat" webinar series, continue the tradition under a new banner! In this inaugural webinar, WorkCompCollege.com co-founders Mark Pew and Donald Abrams join Wilson and Langham to discuss how this new certification concept came to be, as…

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WorkCompCollege Announces Preferred Medical as Gold Associate Partner

Lakewood Ranch, FL – WorkCompCollege.com has announced Preferred Medical as a new Gold Associate Partner. Preferred Medical is a PBM and ancillary service provider focused on delivering high-quality tailored services to payors around the country. Because of their direct interaction with both claims personnel and injured workers, they see great benefit to those they serve by investing in their entire team with WorkCompCollege.com’s Workers’ Recovery Professional (WRP) Certification program. As…

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WorkCompCollege.com Announces Scholarship Availability for Kids’ Chance Recipients

Lakewood Ranch, FL (November 9, 2022) – WorkCompCollege.com, which launches its innovative training and certification program for the workers’ compensation industry on November 17, 2022, has announced a scholarship program to benefit recipients of Kids’ Chance Scholarships across the nation. The company will fund a full tuition scholarship in their Workers’ Recovery Professional (WRP) Certification Program for any Kids’ Chance scholarship student who desires a career in workers’ comp.  “One…

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Living Between Vegas and Seattle and Colorado Springs and Whatever This Live-Streaming Thing Is

I have not written much in the last couple of weeks. It’s not that I don’t have much to say. In fact, I rarely “don’t have much to say.” It is just that the last few weeks have been extraordinarily busy, and I just haven’t found the time to pound out any of those words on the keyboard.  At least in some semblance of order anyone could understand. I have…

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WorkCompCollege.com Launches Virtual Athletic Program, Introduces Athletic Director, Scholarships, and “Flying Bull” Mascot

Lakewood Ranch, FL (October 11. 2022) – The virtual education system WorkCompCollege.com today announced its new athletic program, naming Gary Davis as its Athletic Director. The school’s new mascot is the “Flying Bull.” A series of Athletic Scholarships have also been created to pay-it-forward for the school’s Workers’ Recovery Professional Certification. WorkCompCollege.com will offer 5 full WRP Scholarships every year to workers’ compensation professionals who played sports either in college…

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