The Risk Managers educational track at this years Workers Compensation Educational Conference, held August 21-24 in Orlando, featured a number of standout sessions. Here are some highlights.

The storm largely spared NYC--but still caused extensive damage up and down the East Coast--and into Vermont.

Workers' compensation has changed forms and functions throughout the years. Walk with us as we take a look at some of the significant events and legislation that have helped shape this form of social insurance into what it is today.

Times are undeniably tough for American workers. Stagnant wages, brutal commutes and the nagging fear that they may at any time join the tens of millions of their compatriots searching for employment.

May you live in interesting times, goes the blessing/curse. And one thing I think we can all agree on, for better or worse, is that dull days are few and far between in 2011.

In the magazine business, summer is the time of strategy sessions, when we crank up the AC, seal ourselves in our offices and take a step back to look at the big picture and to chart our course for the next year—and beyond.

We—and by “we” I mean humans—love lists. As intensely social, status-conscious animals, something buried deep in our DNA makes us relish rankings of the best and the biggest or the weakest and the worst.

The odds are good that as you’re reading this, you’re holding in your hands a printed copy of NU. And if you’re anything like me, you still get a small but real thrill when one of your favorite magazines arrives in the mail.