DePaolo's World

I have an old saying. Perhaps someone else said it. I don't recall if I acquired it elsewhere - so if this quote belongs to someone el...

Medical fraud isn't restricted to workers' compensation, but work comp can be the centerpiece. Compound medications, illegal ref...

And another one goes down . Former California state Sen. Ronald S. Calderon agreed Monday to plead guilty to mail fraud, after signing a...

My blog post on fraud and audits  on June 7 attracted the attention of Christine Baker, Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, ...

Big fraud headlines draw lots of interest. An alleged $90 million ring in Riverside County was busted with indictments against a host of ...

I know I'm going to get flamed for this blog post, but I have always committed to telling the story the way I see it. I have taken ...

Experience, or the number of injury claims, has been going down across the country except for one specific geographic area - Southern Califo...

"Money for nothin' and your chicks for free." Mark Knopfler wrote those words about the ignorantly jealous who had no clue h...

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

One of the curious anomalies in statistics about cost drivers in California is that the southern part of the state is disproportionately rep...

Calling it "one of the largest insurance fraud scams in California history," the Los Angeles Times yesterday reported on the rele...

The other day I wrote about the fear in the workers' compensation industry to blow the whistle on wrong doers. Many readers acknowledg...

The top local television news story Tuesday night was about Kelly Soo Park, who was acquitted in the murder of Juliana Redding in 2013. She ...

The single biggest threat to the health of workers' compensation in the United States is a fear of retribution that keeps those in the k...

Alaska weather. We're having one of those searing Southern California heat waves that I remember from a child - just as school start...

I hope Bowzer doesn't succumb to temptation... It's an unfortunate, but all too real, headline. " Applicants' Attorney ...

After I landed Forty One Mike Sunday in Oxnard the other day and was off the active runway I switched to ground frequency per the contro...

Unless one lives in Bangladesh , going to jail for killing a worker is rare. Very rare. But when an employer is so egregious with work...