Meet the winners of the sixth annual Awards for Excellence in Workers Compensation Risk Management: Limbach Facility Services, a mechanical design and construction contractor; Kelly Services, the staffing-solution provider; and Vestas-American Wind Technology, which manufactures and services wind turbines.

Experts in Workers Compensation will often say how important it is that a companys senior-management team support safety initiatives. At Limbach Facility Services, theyd be preaching to the choir. Its CEO, Charlie Bacon, is intensely passionate about safety.

A harsh reality of the construction industry is that it is made up of an aging workforce. To try and counter the impact of this, Limbach Facility Services in 2009 launched a robust internal wellness program that offers a cash incentive for employees who achieve certain wellness goals.

When Charlie Bacon was 21 years old and working on his first construction project in Philadelphia, an accident involving an elevator counterweight killed one of his colleagues.

AT 87, AND WITH his place in the history of insurance secure, Hank Greenberg certainly deserves a little time off. But that fits neither his personality nor his plans.

One of the drawbacks to having superhuman skills is that you tend to attract equally well-enabled arch-enemies.

In a multitrillion-dollar, globe-straddling industry, its exceedingly difficult for one person to make an indelible differenceto truly and fundamentally and permanently transform the insurance landscape.

No other company is as aptly named as Progressive Insurance, which for the last 50 years under the leadership of Peter Lewis has been remarkably ahead of the insurance-industry curve in implementing game-changing business practices.