Sedgwick is now in its fifth consecutive year of rising workers' compensation claim volume tied to the aging workforce.
The trend is structural, not cyclical. Workers are staying employed later, holding physically demanding roles longer, and incurring injuries that take more time to heal. Agents and brokers who used to treat workers' comp as a flat-line book are watching frequency creep up year over year.
Atlas positions its navigators as advocates for the worker first and the program second. When a 65-year-old fall victim feels heard at intake, the claim closes faster than when the worker feels managed. Advocacy is not soft, it is operationally cheaper.
IA Magazine outlined three practical ways agents can support clients through this shift.
How is your program adjusting to a workforce that is staying on the job longer?
Source: IA Magazine
Advocacy is operationally cheaper.
Atlas positions its navigators as advocates for the worker first and the program second. When a 65-year-old fall victim feels heard at intake, the claim closes faster than when the worker feels managed.
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