While vehicles are getting safer, there has been an increase in traffic fatalities. The 7.2 percent increase in driving deaths around the country in 2015 over the previous year can be attributed to a variety of causes, including people having more available income and...
Month: October 2016
Traffic deaths rise 10% in the first six months of 2016
In October, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a report on traffic deaths in the first half of 2016. The news was not good. Deaths on American roads increased 10% from the same time period in 2015. In all, 17,775 people died in traffic...
Report calls for federal oversight of workers’ compensation
Kentucky residents likely know that most workers' compensation programs are administered by the states and not the federal government. Changes made to these programs by legislators in more than 30 cash-strapped states have been widely criticized by worker advocacy...
3 leading risk factors for health care worker injuries
Health care employees in Kentucky work in a demanding environment. Although the industry as a whole has managed to reduce the frequency of workplace injury claims by 1 percent annually, risk experts have measured a 2 percent increase in the severity of such injuries....