DePaolo's World

I often write about doing the right thing, and how an employer's culture starts at the top and filters through the ranks, ultimately a...

Bowzer knows... In October, after the California Division of Workers' Compensation eliminated neuropsychology as a QME option, I sai...

Bowzer knows. The Grand Bargain - the courts have told us many times that workers' compensation is a legislative and regulatory ma...

In my opinion (which of course is all you get in this blog), yesterday's Super Bowl was one of the very best. Back and forth scoring, ...

The teaser line for the movie trailer Poltergeist II is almost universally known: "They're ba-ack." It's now 2015, I...

Professional sports, and in particular, the NFL have brazenly scoffed at employment laws for years and years. Then the players unionize...

I have posted quite a bit in this blog about the futility of specialty legislation - from my observations of 30 years in this industry, spec...

The Super Bowl played out on national television yesterday and millions of people enjoyed (I think) the show (or at least the half time show...

Yesterday I opined that disruptive social technology would one day result in the forever changing workers' compensation as we know it. ...

There's no surprise that California Governor Jerry Brown signed the National Football League's bill largely terminating workers...

Sitting on the desk of California Governor Jerry Brown, among other legislation sent his way this month, is the NFL Bill, AB 1309 , by Assem...

There are 2 weeks left in the 2013 California legislative session with a few bills pending relating to workers' compensation. Here'...

I got a LinkedIn post notification yesterday that gave me some pause for concern...brief pause. The LinkedIn post referenced an article that...

Workers' compensation is a statutory creature, created by special interest factions representing various elements of society in a politi...

In many workers' compensation litigated disputes, much of the factual issues are stipulated because the legal issues are so limited. But...

Last week I wrote about the expanding influence, and perhaps, jurisdiction of the federal government over our lives, and in particular (of c...

The California Society of Industrial Medicine and Surgery and the California Neurology Society have come out to formally oppose California A...