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COVID-19 and job accommodations

COVID-19 and job accommodations

Written by Nancy Gilpatrick MSEd, CRC, CDMS, LSW and Brown & Brown Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant Working from home and changes to work routine have greatly impacted the American worker in the last year. Companies across the country found themselves sending...
Pathologists & Toxicologists – Managing life claims

Pathologists & Toxicologists – Managing life claims

As life insurance claims increase, how will insurers respond? While the full impact of COVID-19 is still being measured, one of the many industries still in flux is the life insurance industry. At the peak of the first wave of COVID-19, second...
Stop the Wait Act – Eliminating the SSDI benefit waiting period

Stop the Wait Act – Eliminating the SSDI benefit waiting period

Written by Gina Schreiber, SVP, Account Management & Aevo Insurance Services In September 2019, the Stop the Wait Act was introduced in the House by U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Ranking Member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, along with U.S....
Assessing Disability Claims for Post-COVID Syndrome

Assessing Disability Claims for Post-COVID Syndrome

Written by Robert Clinton, MD, Doctor of Internal Medicine and Brown & Brown Absence Services Group Physician Consultant. The COVID-19 virus is novel and something with which medicine and humanity had not had experience with until late 2019; thus, we must begin by...
2021 Industry Predictions #3  – Behavioral health

2021 Industry Predictions #3 – Behavioral health

Investments in behavioral health claim management practices will provide stability in 2021. Written by Mark Sawyer, CLU, VP of Claim Performance Solutions 2020 saw an increase in the prevalence of COVID-19 related behavioral health issues that impacted disability...