Every business owner will be impacted by the troubles brewing in workers compensation insurance. Among the top trends identified to watch are - medical costs continue to rise, injured employees are staying out of work longer, declines are slowing in the frequency of claims, and a regulatory crackdown on the misclassification of independent contractors is coming.  Preston Diamond, managing director and co-founder of the Institute of Workcomp Professionals (IWCP), identified 11 issues that bear watching in an article published January 17, 2011 by PropertyCasualty360.  Read more