DePaolo's World

My blog post on fraud and audits  on June 7 attracted the attention of Christine Baker, Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, ...

The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine has published a study confirming the assumption that medical treatment in accordan...

Transparency is an issue in workers' compensation, probably more so than other industries, because the complex nature involving the in...

Workers' compensation and trust - the two go together like the proverbial peas and the pod. Or I should say, "mistrust," no...

Friday was, I think, the first business day I did not post in this blog other than when I was on vacation in Italy last May. Even when I w...

One of the most interesting debates going on in the country about workers' compensation is the constitutionality of changes to state ...

My maternal grandfather lived with us when I was growing up. We called him "Daddy Harry" at his insistence. His legal name was H...

The California Workers' Compensation Institute has released its latest study on Independent Medical Review, and the conclusions should...

The following is a guest blog post from Lesley Anderson, MD , a practicing knee and shoulder surgery specialist in San Francisco, CA. Yes...

Maximus, the Independent Medical Review firm for disputed California workers' compensation medical treatment requests, is in the news ag...

Four One Mike over the LA basin managing risk... Heading back to California today from the 70th annual WCI Educational Conference in Flo...

California workers' compensation claims stay open longer, much longer, than the national average and as a consequence cost a whole lot m...

265 miles. That's how far it is, point of origin my house, up Highway 33 through the Los Padres National Forest, into the Cuyama Val...

Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of surfaces sliding against each other. The byproduct of friction is thermal ene...

The ink isn't yet dry, but a bill introduced into the California legislature would unwind a portion of three year old SB 863 to exe...

A recent California Workers' Compensation Appeals Board panel decision may cause a bit of tumult in the already contentious forum of Ind...