This week: knowing how to deal with an employee off work due to illness for several years, a rise in vehicle accidents due in part to distracted driving, and what to do when you need to execute an investigation in the workplace.
The danger of large vehicles to others, and a couple of cases around insurance. This is the WMA News Recap for Oct. 8, 2018.
Short term disability insurance, driving while high, health and safety regulation and more. This is the WMA News Recap for Oct. 1, 2018.
Driving while high, employees working alone, and an inter-provincial insurance dispute. This is the WMA News Recap for Sep. 24.
Extreme weather in injury law, disability claims, and what’s reasonably practicable in Occupational Health and Safety — this is the WMA News Recap for the week of Sep. 17.
Driving while stoned, the opioid crisis, and the difficulty of inter-provincial claims adjusting: this is the WMA News Recap for the week of Sep. 10.
Mental health in the workplace, auto fatalities and accidents, and workers taking longer to return to work. This is the WMA News Recap for the week of Sep 3.
Auto insurance changes, a wrongful dismissal suit, post-concussion syndrome, and distracted driving. This is WMA’s News Recap for August 27.
WMA’s News Recap this week includes auto collisions, changes to insurance law, and disability insurance tips.
As with many mental disorders, addiction can be a hard thing to objectively verify. But we do know it can affect the brain. So, what’s a disability claims manager to do when faced with a claim related to substance addiction?