This month's ASA Subscript features FIVE WAYS TO DECREASE YOUR WORKERS' COMPENSATION COSTS: Everywhere I go today, people want to ask me one thing: “Do you know that there’s toilet paper hanging from the bottom of your shoe?”But that’s not relevant for this month’s SubScript article. The question I’m referencing here is: What are five specific things I can do to reduce workers’ compensation costs that aren’t just “have a good safety program?” I’m glad you asked.Take a look at

Some people are about to get really pissed off about changes in their WC modifier. Others, not so much. While this will not be entirely the fault of the Texas Department of Insurance's adoption of the NCCI Experience Rating Manual effective 7/1/15, the changes will have something to do with it. Texas Mutual has produced a helpful summary sheet of the NCCI changes to Experience Rating. Hit the link to download it. However, unless you understood the intimate inner workings

One wonders if Uber can survive today's regulation state. Apparently, Uber drivers in California, driving their own cars and working their own hours, believe they should be considered employees rather than independent contractors. If California courts agree, they will be entitled to workers' compensation benefits. They might win in court, but will they still have jobs if they do? From Business Insurance: In separate lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco,