DePaolo's World

I'm heading to Boston today for the Workers' Compensation Research Institute's annual wonk-fest : more information, data and ana...

I write all the time about bad things in workers' compensation and how we need to give the world something positive to talk about. Just ...

Exclusive remedy has been under attack, critics say, putting the doctrine and employers at risk as avenues for civil action erode one of the...

An episode of Reno 911 has a department psychologist taking officer mental healthy inventories. Each officer character in the cas...

All the talk in workers' compensation about alternative systems has been about opt-out. Now, a couple of professors, and Congress, i...

A case out of Pennsylvania demonstrates that nobody wants to pay for an "injury", which is why there is "fault" in w...

Show me a business that complains about workers' compensation, and I'll show you a business that's mismanaged with a whole lot ...

Ask Bowzer about his childhood... Adverse Childhood Experience - ACE. This is the new buzz phrase to describe early childhood psychologi...

Richard was an FBI agent. He's a resident at Mom's memory care facility. I've known him since Mom started there. Richard is ...

I'm probably going to get slammed by injured workers for this post, but that's okay because there's a truth that needs to be sai...

There is an essential element to the Grand Bargain: one can't have it both ways. We've gone over that theme before when I point ou...

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

There's one glaring and obvious conclusion to be reached from the Workers' Compensation Research Institute's latest study f...

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

Three thousand five hundred miles away, at the Workers' Compensation Institute's annual workers' compensation mega-fest in O...