About this newsletter

ISO will issue this e-newsletter periodically to help keep you abreast of the critical issues facing workers comp carriers. Perspectives features articles on various timely topics, such as predictive modeling, workers comp data management issues, XML standards, reconciling financial call data, and the latest in EDI reporting. The periodic e-newsletter also features tools you can use, such as an EDI status map, state updates, news of upcoming industry events, and more.

If you have a topic you’d like to suggest, please let us know. We look forward to your feedback so we can provide you with information that’s the most relevant to your business needs.

At ISO, we have more than 30 years of experience in collecting, processing, managing, and reporting insurance data on behalf of our participating insurance companies. While we are not a workers compensation statistical agent, we are experts in providing value-added services for workers compensation that can significantly help your bottom line.

As a major participant in the workers compensation arena, ISO maintains active relationships with the top industry organizations. Through our work with those groups, we've developed ISO's wcPrism® to address the specific needs of insurers, statistical agents, rating organizations, regulators, and industrial-accident boards.

Newsletter Articles

Issue 4.1

• Insurance Regulation:
  Evolution, Revolution, and How to Be Prepared
• 21st Century Data Management
• You Can See a Lot Just by Looking at Your Workers Comp Data — Part I:
  Tackling Compliance Challenges with New Technologies

Issue 3.3

• Industry Outlook
• Workers Comp Risk Management: Carriers Can Play a Major Role in a Creating a Win-Win Scenario
• Protecting a Vital Insurer Asset

Issue 3.2

• Preventing Healthcare Fraud in Property/Casualty Claims
• Securing Personally Identifiable Information: Are You and Your Vendor on the Same Page?
• The Workers Compensation Fraud: (The Latent Crisis)

Issue 3.1

• Determining Workers Comp Premiums: The Importance of Increasing Accuracy Up Front
• Medical-Data Analytics: The Key to Cost Containment
• New Medicare Secondary Payer Reporting Requirements: The Sky Is Falling . . . Will You Be Ready for July 1, 2009?

Issue 2.3

• Managing Escalating Workers Comp Costs: Predictive Modeling Holds Promise in Many Areas
• Workers Comp Fraud: High-Tech Tools Offer Hope in Fighting Costly Problem
• Detailed Medical Reporting: wcPrismTM Provides New Service Level Through the Verisk Health Intelligence PlatformTM

Issue 2.2

• Managing Profitability: It’s Time to Take a Hard Look at the Costs of Doing Business
• Workers Comp Premium Fraud: Being Alert to Indicators Can Aid Early Detection and Curb Losses
• Worker Misclassification: How Much Could You Be Losing to This Deceptive Practice?

Issue 2.1

• Assessing Catastrophic Exposures in Workers Compensation Insurance
• New York DOI Report Recommends Expanding Data Collection
• The Difference is in the Detail: Reducing Inadequate Workers Comp Exposure Estimates

Issue 1.4

• To outsource or not to outsource?
• Top 10 Reasons for Using a Transactional Environment
• Detours From Efficiency – The Perils of Exception Processing

Issue 1.3

• Finding the Workers Compensation Data Sweet Spot
• Workers Comp XML Standards Open the Door to Easier Data Sharing and Deeper Analyses
• Predictive Modeling for Premium Audit

Issue 1.2

• Reconciling Financial Call Data
• The Power of Predictive Modeling and the Value of Data in the Results
• Whether You’re Ready or Not, Release 3 is Coming

Issue 1.1

• Tapping the Potential of Our Data Resource
• How Big a Role Does Medical Utilization Play in Rising Workers Compensation Claims Costs?
• Should Threshold Limitations Apply to EDI Reporting?

Newsletter Archive

Issue number 4.1

Issue number 3.3

Issue number 3.2

Issue number 3.1

Issue number 2.3

Issue number 2.2

Issue number 2.1

Issue number 1.4

Issue number 1.3

Issue number 1.2

Issue number 1.1

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