DePaolo's World

A lot of general media attention in the past year has been about how the workers' compensation industry absorbs money that could otherwi...

Does the amount of kickbacks for patient referrals in a specific geographic area correlate to higher medical utilization and severity cost...

I wrote yesterday about reality and perception , yet we, the industry, continue to be our own worst enemies creating negative realities to m...

Below the clouds is a runway ... we hope. "Although California is always one bad court ruling or piece of legislation away from d...

Last week I wrote about the Texas Supreme Court closing the door on civil actions against workers' compensation insurance companies, gi...

Last Friday I blogged a title, " Urine Is Big Money ." What I opined was that the very public lawsuits and jury verdicts in the ...

Not only is there big money in drugs, but there is big money in drug testing, as evidenced by a recent jury verdict against San Diego, CA b...

In workers' compensation, if there's a cost to contain, then there are enterprising people willing to sell something to contain that...

The Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau's latest report , released Thursday, on SB 863 shows just how difficult it is to e...

The common thinking when big money private equity moves into workers' compensation is that they are either trying to diversify portfoli...

Well you KNEW this was going to happen, and I'm sure you can also predict the outcome. A couple weeks ago the Los Angeles Times ran a ...

The medical profession has been experiencing an image problem for some time though it seems it has been getting worse. When I was a kid, doc...

Salacious. That's the best word to describe this morning's news about a whistle-blower complaint unsealed July 24 in Sacramento S...

It's not often that there's a positive story to tell in workers' compensation. We are usually consumed with what's wrong, co...

After the NCCI Annual Issues Symposium ( AIS ) I received an email from Peter Rousmaniere , a noted columnist who covers the workers' co...

As I've mentioned before , in particular with the Florida repackaged drug bill that is circulating the legislature there, compromise mea...

The workers' compensation system is obsessed with costs. Reform legislation around the country is nearly uniformly about controlling c...