November 5, 2025 – Chicago, IL – The Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study, the industry’s largest claims management research initiative, has opened its 13th annual survey, inviting claims leaders to participate in essential research exploring the most pressing challenges and opportunities reshaping claims organizations today.
October 8, 2025 – Chicago, IL – Rising Medical Solutions (Rising) is pleased to announce the appointment of David Dubrof as Chief Growth Officer. A seasoned executive with more than 30 years of leadership experience in the workers’ compensation, healthcare, and technology sectors, David will spearhead Rising’s client acquisition and retention strategies, drive market expansion, and lead the company’s high-performing sales and account services teams.
September 10, 2025 – Chicago, IL – Inc. magazine names Rising Medical Solutions to its 2025 Inc. 5000 list, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The honorees offer a data-driven snapshot of high-performing businesses within one of the economy’s most dynamic sectors—America’s independent enterprises. Over the years, household names like Microsoft, Chobani, and Patagonia have appeared on the Inc. 5000 list during pivotal stages of their growth. Rising’s 2025 placement marks the company’s eighth time earning this national distinction.
August 11, 2025 – New research from Rising Medical Solutions reveals nearly half of claims professionals spend at least 30% of their time on administrative tasks, highlighting need for digital solutions. The study identified three critical challenges facing the workers’ compensation sector.
August 6, 2025 – Forty-six percent of workers compensation claims professionals spend as much as 40% or more of their time on routine tasks, with 23% saying they allocate just as much time to regulatory compliance, according to research published Wednesday by Rising Medical Solutions.
These numbers have led more claims organizations to seek technological approaches to managing claims, the study found. As of 2023, 37% of claims organizations are using as many as six technology “systems” to help manage claims, up from 28% in 2019; 18% are using seven or more as of 2023, up from 14%.
August 6, 2025 – Chicago, IL – Rising Medical Solutions today announced the release of its 12th annual Workers’ Compensation Benchmarking Study Report. The newly published study examines how claims organizations are successfully navigating the challenge of implementing digital transformation while maintaining the human elements essential to optimal outcomes.
Based on comprehensive, first-person focus group research conducted with claims and medical management executives, the latest annual report provides real-world strategies that high-performing organizations are using to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance human performance and strategic productivity while simultaneously investing in human judgment and emotional intelligence that technology cannot replicate.
December 18, 2024 – The construction industry and comorbidities are two areas of concern in the workers compensation industry, which is grappling with a rise in so-called mega claims, according to experts who say technology is working to help curb runaway costs.
Costs associated with catastrophic workplace injuries that cost more than $2 million represent less than 0.1% of workers compensation claims but account for up to 2% of all costs to insurers, according to a report released Dec. 5 by the National Council on Compensation Insurance.
