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The Guru has provided links below to useful publications dedicated to continued learning. Work Comp Publications – Books, Magazines, Newsletters, Guides

Business

Safety National Releases Report on Self-Insured Groups (PDF)
The report outlines five major areas where groups can implement best practices to help ensure success, including maintaining a plan of operation, working with service providers, building relationships with regulators, marketing a group and maintaining financial solvency.

Indiana Small Business Guide to Environmental, Safety, and Health Regulations

Safety and Health Guide for Indiana Business - Sixth Edition

Employers – Human Resources

HR Focus Report: The 2011 ADAAA Regulations: A Guide for Employers
With the public’s increased awareness of the ADAAA and the hiring of 225 new investigators over the course of two years, the EEOC expects more than 9,000 more disability discrimination claims to be filed in 2011 than were filed in 2009. Many of these likely would not have been filed under the old ADA.

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition
Disaster Planning & Homeland Security for Indiana Business

FMLA Guide (Second Edition)
Promoting Employee Health
The Brave News Wold of e-HR:Human Resources in the Digital Age

The Essential HR Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional

The Future of Human Resource Management: 64 Thought Leaders Explore the Critical HR Issues of Today and Tomorrow
The Manager's Guide to HR

The RX for your #1 Headache - FMLA

Insurance

Workers’ Compensation: Benefits, Coverage, and Costs, 2009 provided by the National Academy of Social Insurance (PDF)
This report provides a benchmark of the coverage, benefits, and costs of workers’ compensation in 2009, to facilitate policymaking and comparisons
with other social insurance and employee benefit programs. The report has been produced annually by the National Academy of Social Insurance since
1998.

ABCs of Experienced Rating (PDF)
NCCI’s Experience Rating Plan Manual for Workers Compensation and Employers Liability Insurance (“Plan”) is an integral part of the final cost of workers compensation. It is a method for tailoring the cost of insurance to the characteristics of an employer or risk. It gives the employer the incentive to manage its own costs through measurable and meaningful cost saving programs.

NCCI: State of the Workers Compensation Line (PDF)
Speaking to a standing room only crowd at the Annual Issues Symposium 2011 in Orlando, FL, NCCI Chief Actuary Dennis Mealy delivered his State of the Line report. This year's report outlines the continuing difficult trends facing the workers compensation industry and includes a "deteriorating" market forecast.

NCCI Study on Physician Reimbursement and Medical Fee Schedules (PDF)

The Impact on Physician Reimbursement of Changes to Workers Compensation Medical Fee Schedules. Medical costs are more than 50% of workers compensation (WC) costs in most states. An important medical cost-control mechanism in many states is the physician fee schedule, which specifies maximum allowable reimbursements for specific medical services provided to treat WC claimants. Most states use such fee schedules to regulate payments to doctors and there is a substantial body of research to document that fee schedules are effective in controlling WC medical costs.

NCCI Study of 2011 Workers Compensation Issues (web book)

New release of the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI)'s 2011 edition of their Workers' Compensation Issues report, which addresses the critical issues facing the Workers' Compensation industry. Highlights include two distinct examinations of the recession's effect on the Workers Comp industry by the III's President and NCCI's Chief Economist, coverage of NAIC's industry agenda, reflections on 100 years of comp from IAIABC, and forecasts for state and federal government activities that may have an effect on the Workers Compensation industry.

Study of Workers Compensation TTD Indemnity Benefit Duration 2010 Update (PDF)

After a period of moderation, NCCI is now seeing an increase in the average duration of payments for Temporary Total Disability (TTD) indemnity benefits. This increase coincides with the onset of the recession in late 2007.

Feb 2010 Focus Magazine-Monthly Publication for IIAA Members
Jan 2010 Focus Magazine-Monthly Publication for IIAA Members

Journal of Risk and Insurance
Risk Management and Insurance Review

Legislative – Legal

2010 Second Injury Fund Calculation of Funding Level
Article 3.Worker's Compensation System
Chapter 1 Worker's Compensation Board
Chapter 2. Application, Rights and Remedies
Chapter 3. Notice of Injury; Treatment: Compensation Schedule; Payments
Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures
Chapter 5. Worker's Compensation: Insurance Requirements
Chapter 6. Worker's Compensation: Miscellaneous Provisions
Chapter 7. Worker's Occupational Diseases Compensation
Chapter 8. Representation Before Workers Compensation Board
Chapter 9. Employer Liability
Chapter 10. Ban on Employer Waiver of Liability
Chapter 11. Residual Asbestos Injury Fund
Chapter 12. Vocational Rehabilitation