2020 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

Print > Single Topic Coverage by a Team > Northeast

Awarded to

Louise Esola, Assitant Editor; Angela Childers Reporter

Entry details

Opioids and Workers Comp

Issue or publication date: April, July, November and December 2019
Publication name: Business Insurance
Publishing company: Business Insurance Holdings Inc.
Website home page: www.businessinsurance.com

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

Business Insurance has covered the insurance and risk management sector since 1967 to help our readers do their jobs better.
Our readers include risk managers and other commercial insurance buyers, insurers, brokers, safety professionals, claims specialists, lawyers and many other subject matter experts working in the commercial insurance field.
Through our daily online publications, monthly print edition and onsite show daily coverage, we keep our readers updated on breaking news, provide insights on emerging trends and help advance discussion and analysis through our proprietary research.
Our 45,000 print readers and more than 235,000 monthly website visitors receive accurate and timely information written by editorial staff with a deep understanding of the issues facing the sector.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

A hallmark of the workers compensation industry is pain management and the industry has been at the forefront of combatting the opioid epidemic—although the scenario for treating injured workers has had its fair share of complications. Among the issues are alternative approaches to pain management, elevated addiction rates among workers in industries such as construction, where lingering musculoskeletal injuries are commonplace, and weaning “legacy claimant” patients who have been on higher doses of opioids for decades and are dependent on the drugs. Because the workers compensation industry benefits greatly from getting workers back on the job and healthy, stakeholders have been heavily engaged in solutions. Business Insurance prides itself on covering all the facets of a challenging ordeal for workers and employers, speaking insurers, physicians and others engaged with workers on the frontlines and those who have experienced drug dependency. Reporters have been tracking changes and trends, reporting on sensitive topics that aim to educate employers on what’s to come and how to manage roadblocks.

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