| Quarterly Economics Briefing - Q3 2020 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_Quarterly_Economics_Briefing-Q32020.aspx | Quarterly Economics Briefing - Q3 2020 | NCCI Insights | | October 30, 2020 | This edition of the Quarterly Economics Briefing presents two reports on how the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected employment. | Article |
| Court Case Update, Massachusetts - October 2020 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-CourtCaseOctober2020-Massachusetts.aspx | Court Case Update, Massachusetts - October 2020 | NCCI Insights | | October 29, 2020 | The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found that a workers compensation insurer cannot be required to pay for a claimant’s medical marijuana expenses. | Article |
| 2020 Workers Compensation Financial Results Update | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-2020WorkersCompResultsUpdate.aspx | 2020 Workers Compensation Financial Results Update | NCCI Insights | | October 26, 2020 | In this report, NCCI provides updated results for 2019, as well as preliminary estimates for Calendar Year 2020. | Article |
| Emergency Room Treatment in Workers Compensation | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-ER-Treatment-Workers-Comp.aspx | Emergency Room Treatment in Workers Compensation | Mitch Wiemer, Carolyn Wise | | October 22, 2020 | COVID-19 has affected the delivery of medical care. Hospitals are diverting resources to treat coronavirus patients, and elective hospital treatments have been deferred. But how might this affect the use of emergency rooms by injured workers? | Article |
| COVID-19’s Impact on Medical Treatment in Workers Compensation - What to Measure | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-COVID-19-WhatToMeasure.aspx | COVID-19’s Impact on Medical Treatment in Workers Compensation - What to Measure | Raji Chadarevian | | October 19, 2020 | NCCI is undertaking several activities to better understand the impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the workers compensation (WC) system. This article shares some of the measures or metrics we are monitoring. | Article |
| COVID-19 and Workers Compensation - Permanent Disability (PDF) | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-COVID19-Workers-Compensation-Permanent-Disability-redirect.aspx | COVID-19 and Workers Compensation - Permanent Disability (PDF) | NCCI Insights | | October 12, 2020 | This paper describes updates made to NCCI's COVID-19 Hypothetical Scenarios Tool, which incorporate the potential for permanent disability outcomes within the calculation framework. | PDF |
| NCCI's COVID-19 Hypothetical Scenarios Tool | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-COVID-19-Hypothetical-Scenarios-Tool.aspx | NCCI's COVID-19 Hypothetical Scenarios Tool | NCCI Insights | | October 12, 2020 | This tool allows users to vary assumptions underlying the framework described in NCCI’s research briefs “COVID-19 and Workers Compensation: Modeling Potential Impacts” and “COVID-19 and Workers Compensation: Permanent Disability." | Article |
| COVID-19 and Workers Compensation: What You Need to Know - Frequently Asked Questions - UPDATE | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-Coronavirus-FAQs.aspx | COVID-19 and Workers Compensation: What You Need to Know - Frequently Asked Questions - UPDATE | NCCI Insights | | October 08, 2020 | This updated article addresses stakeholder questions regarding COVID-19 and the impact it may have on the workers compensation industry. | Article |
| COVID-19 Court Cases (PDF) | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-COVID-19-Court-Cases.pdf | COVID-19 Court Cases (PDF) | NCCI Insights | | October 08, 2020 | This report provides an overview of COVID-19-related state and federal cases with potential implications for workers compensation insurance. | PDF |
| Catastrophic COVID-19 Workers Compensation Claims - Case Studies and the Pandemic | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-Catastrophic-COVID-19-WorkersComp-Claim-Case-Studies-Pandemic.aspx | Catastrophic COVID-19 Workers Compensation Claims - Case Studies and the Pandemic | Michael Choo | | October 06, 2020 | Michael Choo shares what we've learned about COVID-19 and its potential impact on workers compensation. | Article |
| COVID-19, Premium Audits, and EBNR - Lessons Learned from the Past | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-COVID-19-Premium-Audits-EBNR-Lessons-Learned.aspx | COVID-19, Premium Audits, and EBNR - Lessons Learned from the Past | Barry Lipton | | September 30, 2020 | This article looks at similarities between the current recession and the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 audit premium and its impact on insurance results. | Article |
| Court Case Update, Illinois - September 2020 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-CourtCaseSeptember2020-Illinois.aspx | Court Case Update, Illinois - September 2020 | NCCI Insights | | September 30, 2020 | The Illinois Supreme Court held that the proper test for determining workers compensation compensability depends on whether the activity was incident to the employment or causally connected to the job duties. | Article |
| Court Case Update, Oklahoma - September 2020 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-Court-Case-Update-Oklahoma-September-2020.aspx | Court Case Update, Oklahoma - September 2020 | NCCI Insights | | September 25, 2020 | The Supreme Court of Oklahoma found that an Oklahoma workers compensation statute is unconstitutional to the extent that it denies recovery to the next of kin of a deceased employee with no dependents. | Article |
| Court Case Update, California - September 2020 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-CourtCaseSeptember2020-California.aspx | Court Case Update, California - September 2020 | NCCI Insights | | September 18, 2020 | A California federal District Court ruled that exclusive remedy barred certain claims by an employee in connection with the employer’s alleged failure to maintain a safe and healthy work environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Article |
| Countrywide Mega Claims Webinar | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_video-Countrywide-Mega-Claims.aspx | Countrywide Mega Claims Webinar | Ryan Voll | | September 17, 2020 | This webinar highlights the Countrywide Mega Claims study conducted by NCCI in collaboration with other workers compensation bureaus. The study analyzes trends in mega claims across the country. | Video |
| INSIGHTS Video Edition - September 2020 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_video-september2020.aspx | INSIGHTS Video Edition - September 2020 | Channel NCCI | | September 16, 2020 | In this episode we discuss our 2020 Regulatory and Legislative Trends Report. | Video |
| Drug-Free Workplace Premium Credits | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-drug-free-testing.aspx | Drug-Free Workplace Premium Credits | Chun Shyong, Barry Lipton, and John Robertson | | September 14, 2020 | This paper reviews the results for risks with WC Drug-Free Workplace Program (DFWP) credits. It includes a limited number of states, and there could be other states (e.g., Ohio) with similar programs not included in this analysis. | Article |
| The Impact of Fee Schedule Updates on Hospital Outpatient Payments | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-Impact-Fee-Schedule-Updates-Hospital-Outpatient-Payments.aspx | The Impact of Fee Schedule Updates on Hospital Outpatient Payments | David Colon, Paul Hendrick, and Bryanna Lum | | August 26, 2020 | This paper uses data from NCCI's Medical Data Call and examines how hospital outpatient payments are impacted by changes in maximum allowable reimbursements. | Article |
| Countrywide Mega Claims | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/II_Country-wide-Mega-Claims-Report-2020-BureauReady.pdf | Countrywide Mega Claims | NCCI Insights | | August 25, 2020 | NCCI, in collaboration with other workers compensation bureaus, has released its Countrywide Mega Claims study. It analyzes trends in mega claims, those with incurred losses at 2018 cost levels of $3 million across the country. | PDF |
| Court Case Update, Federal - August 2020 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-CourtCaseAugust2020-Federal.aspx | Court Case Update, Federal - August 2020 | NCCI Insights | | August 21, 2020 | The federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of a Washington workers compensation statute that creates a presumption of compensability for certain types of diseases contracted by federal contractors. | Article |
| 2020 Regulatory and Legislative Trends Report | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-Regulatory-Legislative-Trends2020.aspx | 2020 Regulatory and Legislative Trends Report | Laura Kersey | | August 19, 2020 | An overview of key legislative, regulatory, judicial, and other developments affecting the workers compensation system including activity to address workers compensation presumptions of compensability in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. | Article |
| Insights From NCCI’s Experience Rating Plan Review | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-Exp-Rating-Plan-Review.aspx | Insights From NCCI’s Experience Rating Plan Review | Tom Daley, Barry Lipton, and Yuchen Su | | July 27, 2020 | Like a safe-driving discount, employers with good safety records can save on workers compensation insurance premiums. But how strong is the connection between past loss history and future losses? NCCI explores this in our research brief. | Article |
| Webinar on the Impact of COVID-19 on Workers Compensation | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-COVID-19-Impact-on-WorkersComp.aspx | Webinar on the Impact of COVID-19 on Workers Compensation | NCCI Insights | | July 27, 2020 | View a recap of the webinar where NCCI and the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) experts discuss COVID-19 and the impact on workers compensation. | Video |
| INSIGHTS Video Edition - July 2020 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_video-july2020.aspx | INSIGHTS Video Edition - July 2020 | Channel NCCI | | July 14, 2020 | We provide a recap of our COVID-19 Resource Center, discuss opioid prescribing across industry groups, and more. | Video |
| Keeping Job Classifications Current in an Ever-Changing Environment | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights-Keeping-Job-Classifications-Current.aspx | Keeping Job Classifications Current in an Ever-Changing Environment | Kathy Thompson | | July 13, 2020 | NCCI’s classification ratemaking methodology involves analyzing employer payroll and loss data reported by workers comp insurers. This paper explores how NCCI establishes new classifications, modifies existing ones, and eliminates the obsolete. | Article |
