Most everyone who is responsible for maintaining a workplace premises, or who owns or rents property, is familiar with yard work. Over the course of the year, lawn, weeds, leaves, sand, and trash all conspire to move to places where we do not want th...

Policyholders may use this free service for any non-emergency work-related injury, any time to help injured workers get immediate access to quality care.

When we hear the word “athlete” most tend to think of a professional, semi-pro, or collegiate level athlete in great shape, strong and agile. We don’t usually think of an athlete in terms of the industrial athlete. Who are the indus...

My eyes strain. I can barely see the other end of the warehouse. It couldn’t be brighter than 3 foot-candles in here. I can feel the foundations of a headache start to build up in the back of my neck. I have to leave this place before I get hur...

Usually, if you want to “build a better mousetrap,” you need to start from scratch because even though the current version has been tweaked and changed a million times, the mice still win occasionally. Like with mousetraps, solutions for ...

(Portland, ME) – The MEMIC Group Board of Directors has authorized distribution of a $17 million dividend to more than 14,000 eligible employers. The 2022 MEMIC dividend brings the total amount of capital and dividend declarations for Maine pol...

We’ve returned $263 million in capital and dividends to Maine policyholders since 1998.

With current unemployment rates hitting record lows -- 3.7% across the U.S in August 2022, according to the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics -- many employers are struggling to find qualified employees. The pandemic caused a major disruption in Am...

I lay on the cold, snowy parking lot next to my vehicle, my right shoulder throbbing where it hit the doorframe as I fell. My left knee is starting to hurt, and the voice in my head says, “You knew it was going to be slippery.” Along with...