2016 was both a hair-on-fire and a pants-on-fire kind of year – so much so that the Oxford Dictionary chose “post truth” as its Word of the Year. In case you’ve been buried in a crypt this year or on a desert island (and who could blame you?) here’s an explanation of how they arrived at that choice. Strangely, “fake news” didn’t even make their list, but you can read the runners up. You shouldn’t find much in the way of fake news here in our post today – we’re looking at key workers comp, insurance and related stories for 2016 – along with a few predictions for the upcoming year.
First, a look back at the news of 2016
Business Insurance: Most popular workers compensation and safety stories of 2016
Business Insurance: The BI Top 10 of 2016
Insurance Journal: Top 12 Insurance Trends and News Stories of 2016: Countdown
SHRM: Top 5 Risk Management Articles for 2016
Safety News Alert: Top workers’ comp cases of 2016 Part 1: The issues and Top workers’ comp cases of 2016 Part 2: Unique circumstances
DOL Blog: Top 10 OSHA Citations of 2016: A Starting Point for Workplace Safety
OSHA: Worker Fatalities Reported to Federal and State OSHA
Safety News Alert: Top 10 OSHA stories of 2016
Paduda: 2016 predictions – how’d I do?
EHS Today: America’s Top 10 Safest Companies Awards
WorkCompWire: Leaders Speak: 2016 Year in Review
Workerscompensation.com CA Dept of Industrial Relations Releases 2016 Legislative Digest With Overview of New Laws
Claims Journal’s Top 10 Legal Articles of 2016
Terms + Conditions: Top 10 Posts of 2016
Fierce Healthcare: 5 notable physician practice headlines in 2016
Heath Affairs: The Most-Shared Health Affairs Articles of 2016
Medgadget’s Best Medical Technologies of 2016
Insurance Journal: Top 10 ‘Most Ridiculous’ Lawsuits of 2016: Chamber of Commerce
Human Resource Executive: Top HR Stories of 2016
HR Morning: Top 10 biggest HR stories of 2016
HR Daily Advisor: Top 20 HR Strange But True Stories for 2016, Part 1 and Part 2
III: Insurance Industry Employment Trends: 1990-2016
Insurance News Net: ‘Rotten Apples’ Kept Authorities Busy In 2016
PropertyCasualty360: 9 fraudsters join the 2016 Insurance Hall of Shame
Looking ahead to 2017
Is it just us or is the world a little too volatile right now for the usual torrent of predictions for the coming year? Here are a few intrepid folks who step out into the abyss:
Paduda: Whither Workers’ Comp in 2017 — Part I and Part II
Risk & Insurance: 2017 Insurance Executives to Watch
Risk & Insurance: Next-Level Solutions for 2017
Occupational Health & Safety Magazine: Looking Ahead to 2017 Automation Trends and Impacts
LinkedIn: The Freelance Economy: Top Trends to Watch in 2017
CBS News: Tech trends to watch in 2017
Bloomberg: The Pessimist’s Guide to 2017
Of general interest
New Yorker: The Five Biggest Business Stories of 2016
USA Today: Trump, turmoil: The top 10 business stories of 2016
Dave Barry’s Year in Review: 2016 — What the … ?
76 of Donald Trump’s many campaign promises
TSA’s Top 10 Most Unusual Finds: 2016 (Video)
The Atlantic: Second Helpings: 2016’s Underappreciated Science, Tech, and Health Stories
Longreads: Best of 2016: Business & Tech Reporting
New York Times: The Year in Pictures
Google: See what was trending in 2016
Twitter #ThisHappened in 2016
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