opioids News
Opioids Are the Next Tobacco. Are Antibiotics the Next Opioids?
The fact pattern is familiar. Drug companies market a legal and regulated drug, resulting in significant overprescription of that drug. Over time, a public health crisis emerges and annual deaths ...
A Crisis Within a Crisis: How COVID-19 Is Driving the Opioid Epidemic
While the current national health conversation has largely centered on the COVID-19 pandemic, another ongoing and deadly battle has been looming in the background: the opioid crisis. The misuse of ...
J&J Faces At Least 100,000 Injury Suits From Various Products
Johnson & Johnson has taken some costly beatings in court this year. And it could get worse. Just last week, a jury ordered J&J to pay $8 billion for wrongfully pushing doctors to prescribe ...
The Future Path Forward: What About Marijuana?
After experts speaking at the Casualty Actuarial Society meeting in November suggested that a future path forward for workers comp insurers to help stem the tide of opioid addiction is to pay for ...
Who’s to Blame for the Opioid Crisis: The Role of Workers Comp Insurance
There are multiple parties responsible for the opioid crisis, and even workers compensation insurers may have played a role in the epidemic, experts speaking at an industry conference said late last ...
Travelers Debuts Predictive Model Designed to Help Injured Workers Avoid Chronic Pain
The country's largest workers' compensation insurer said it has developed a model to predict the likelihood of an injured worker developing chronic pain. The model can them help the workers take ...