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IBI Data Offers Solutions to Help Employers Manage Short-term Disability

By ⋅ June 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Benefits duration limits are not the best tool to quickly and safely return employees to work
SAN FRANCISCO (Vocus) June 1, 2010 — In this tough economic climate employers have a strong interest in limiting unnecessary time that an employee may be out of work for a short-term disability (STD). To better understand how to help [...]

Employers may get break on jobless insurance increase

By ⋅ November 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(BOSTON HERALD) - The Patrick administration is hoping to soften the blow of a planned unemployment-insurance rate increase, in exchange for boosting employers’ contributions to a nearly bankrupt health-care fund.
The state’s unemployment insurance system, which is almost broke due the high number of jobless people seeking claims, is scheduled to automatically jack up rates by [...]

Job-insurance link is strained

By ⋅ September 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(THE NEWS AND OBSERVER) - Bill Atkinson is CEO of WakeMed Health & Hospitals and is on an American Hospital Association task force on health-care reform. He recently began blogging on the hospital’s Web site, www.wakemedvoices.org, about health care and reform. Here is a recent highlight.
Uwe Reinhardt’s recent commentary on CNN.com highlights the economic dangers [...]

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