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The always excellent Washington Research Council blog has a post up today noting the release of the annual study of national workers' compensation coverage, benefits, and costs by the National Academy of Social Insurance.

As WRC reports, the study, relying on most-recently-available data from 2012, shows Washington State continues to lead the nation in amount of benefits paid per covered worker, at $840.16. The next highest benefit payment state, Alaska, came in at $797.65 per covered worker in ...

Late last week, word began filtering out over the wires about WSIA's recent partnership with MedPlus Health Solutions to provide enhanced services to employers and administrators on workers' compensation hearing loss claims.

From the press release:

MEDPlus Health Solutions, an industry leader in workers' compensation cost-containment, announced today they have been selected as the preferred vendor of hearing devices, supplies and services for the Washington Self-Insured Association as of July 1, 2014. WSIA is Washington's most trusted non-profit ...