DePaolo's World

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

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...

Applicant attorney Keith More asked the 800 or so attendees to our panel session at the California Applicant's Attorneys' Associatio...

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 Workers' Compensation Research Institute's latest study essentially states that financial incentives influence treatment co...

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...

If one waits long enough opportunities appear, almost magically. Early EAMS observers will remember this scene... Medical records repro...

Healing? It's been easy to criticize Independent Medical Review in California, due to evidence of records mismanagement, unanticipat...

I was honored to be on The Great Debate panel at the California Applicants' Attorneys Association Winter Convention in San Diego on Fr...

I have a great idea - let's make the burden on physicians in the California workers' compensation system even greater by requiri...

Independent Medical Review is probably the most contentious change introduced to the California workers' compensation system in history...