Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2017
Three decades ago, the treatment Michele Zumwalt received for severe headaches involved a shot of the opioid Demerol. Very quickly, Zumwalt says, she would get headaches if she didn’t get her shot. Then she began having seizures, and her doctor considered stopping the medication. Read the full article on NPR’s Website. If you have questions about drug addiction with regard to safety, contact Matt Olphin, CSP, ARM, Vice President, Risk Control Services, Program Solutions.
Beginning in 1971, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) first issued 29 CFR 1910 Subpart D, “Walking-Working Surfaces” to help prevent injuries and fatalities resulting from slip, trip, and fall type exposures. Many efforts have been made to update the standard since 1971, and many believe the standard is outdated and does not reflect current technologies available to prevent these types of injuries and fatalities. Falls from heights and on the same level (a working surface) are among the leading causes of serious work-related injuries and deaths. OSHA estimates that, on average, approximately 202,066 serious (lost-workday) injuries and 345 fatalities occur annually among workers directly affected by the final standard. OSHA has issued a final rule on Walking-Working Surfaces …
Shared by Deb Franklin from the Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog of Jackson Lewis, by Tiffany A. Buckley-Norwood on February 21, 2017 How many employers have had this situation arise? An employee requests and receives Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave. While they are out, the employee’s supervisor needs to locate a document, find out the status of a project the employee was working on, or a crucial question comes up that only the employee on leave can answer. According to the courts, a few minor, work-related communications with the employee to “pass on institutional knowledge or documents”, or as a “professional courtesy”, may be permissible. See Massey-Diaz v. University of Iowa Community Medical Services, Inc. (2016). Any more than …
Rough Notes, one of the insurance industry’s leading publications, previously featured the Murray executive leadership team on their cover and in the May 2016 edition as “Agency of the Month”. Later, other insurance agents and brokers across North America voted for Murray to be named Rough Notes Magazine’s “Marketing Agency of the Year for 2017.” Dave Willis, Editor-in-Chief of Rough Notes stated, “Murray was chosen by its peers – other agencies and brokers from across North America that have earned the same recognition over the past 28 years. These leading agencies and brokers saw characteristics in Murray – from its creative approaches to addressing risk to the fact that it’s an employee-owned agency – that made it stand out from …
What happens to your income when your business is interrupted? That depends on whether you have the right protection plan in place.
If you're a medical practitioner researching insurance options, the bulk of your time is probably spent looking at malpractice coverage. But are you missing the bigger picture?
“What did I do wrong?” and “Am I doing this correctly?” are frequent questions from clients regarding Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) administration. Here are some of the more common mistakes employers can inadvertently make in this regard. Not providing an employee with a sufficient Notice of Eligibility and Rights & Responsibilities. When an employee requests FMLA leave, or when an employer acquires knowledge that an employee’s need for leave might be FMLA-qualifying, an employer must: Notify the employee of the employee’s eligibility to take FMLA leave and rights and responsibilities within 5 business days, absent extenuating circumstances. This “Eligibility and Rights & Responsibilities Notice” must be in writing and must state whether the employee is eligible for FMLA leave …
Don’t let the bed bugs bite—it’s a common phrase told endearingly to children, but among hotel managers it’s a stout declaration.
Americans have been talking a lot about the “fake news” phenomenon lately, but fake news has been part of the investment world for some time, on TV, online and at cocktail parties. How many “hot stocks” and “can’t fail strategies” have you heard about over the years? Maybe the idea that some stock guru has “the secret to beating the market” is as mythical as a unicorn. According to Dalbar, an independent research firm that has been studying investment performance and investor behavior since 1976, there is evidence that trying to beat the market does investors more harm than good. Their 22nd Annual Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior (2016) found that, for the 20-year period ending on December 31, 2015, …
It’s one of the most contentious debates in investing. Perhaps a more important question: which approach will be superior over the long term, active or passive investing? Active investing is when you proactively move assets (buying and selling) with the goal of beating relative market performance as measured by an index. Relying on trend analysis and your past experience, you seek to buy individual stocks, sectors and/or fund managers when they appear low with the plan to sell them when they’re higher. If you guess correctly, you have the potential for significant returns. But if you’re wrong, the results can be costly. Passive investing is when you buy a diverse mix of assets and reallocate your funds only when rebalancing …
