DePaolo's World

If you're an engineer, like my son, then you see everything as black and white, one or zero, on or off. There's not much room in a...

A case out of Montana demonstrates that whether an injury falls within the ambit of workers' compensation jurisdiction has mostly to ...

After so many years traveling the workers' compensation conference circuit, absorbing all of the education, statistics and analysis, i...

Traveling the nation, I routinely field criticism about the California workers' compensation environment, particularly from thos...

The Grand Bargain is a strange deal sometimes because we don't always know where the boundary lines are, particularly when it comes to...

The universal standard for employer/carrier liability in workers' compensation is AOE/COE: arising out of and occurring in the course of...

My mother in law, Pat, lives next door. She's 86 years old and set in her ways. She has her habits, she has her opinions, she has her ro...

The Education Department at WorkCompCentral is in the middle of a pilot program to place young lawyers into the work comp industry. Workin...

Yesterday I went on about how workers' compensation evolved over the years, how it will continue to evolve, and that the original ...

The tune changes when different hats get worn. "I now understand what they feel like," Jane Hays is quoted as saying in a Te...

Life is a risk - embrace it, don't dispute it. Workers' compensation is supposed to be a "no fault" system. The basi...

If the mission had been to procure a donut the result may have been different. The Appellate Court of Connecticut said in a decision rel...

My daughter and I flew N6641M to Catalina Island yesterday. Catalina/Avalon airport is 24 miles as the Bonanza flies from Los Angeles Harb...

I'm in Austin, TX, for the next couple of days. My Aunt Gail died late last week after a protracted fight with cancer, so the extended f...

What if the ebola virus is industrially acquired? Working abroad, or health worker infected... The general media yesterday ran headlines ab...