DePaolo's World

The immigration policy of this country has routinely been found by the United States Supreme Court to be a federal issue, even as states a...

Immigration into the United States, particularly through channels that aren't deemed "legal" has always been an emotionally c...

Tomorrow legions of workers' compensation professionals will descend upon Las Vegas for the annual Bacchanalia commonly known as the Na...

In June the California Supreme Court ruled that Sierra Chemical Co.'s argument that Vicente Salas was not legally eligible to hold a jo...

In July I opined that an arrest of 105 undocumented workers at a fruit packing plant in Florida, without also citing the employer where th...

A couple of days ago I posted about a Labor Day report from research group Economic Roundtable. The study showed that the number of ...

Last week WorkCompCentral reported on a raid in Florida of a company, Fruit Dynamics, arresting over a hundred undocumented workers. Inve...

Exploitation of immigrants Recalling my defense attorney days, it seems that by far and away the vast majority of the claims I was refe...

An interesting anecdote provides a glimpse into the connection between workers' compensation and immigration policy, and how workers...

New York's highest court on Thursday unanimously ruled that workers' compensation exclusivity can shield an employer from tort liab...

Immigration reform has been sidelined by the Affordable Care Act, Sequestration, and other congressional befuddlement and partisan fighting ...

It seems that SB 863 and its aftermath is doing a bit more to bring the interests of injured workers and their employers closer together tha...

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) reported that a recent survey of immigrants on occupational health and wor...

The rapid rise in spending for drug testing over the past couple of years raises more questions than answers. Yesterday the California Work...

When it comes to undocumented workers and protection of employee rights I am one confused individual. On the one hand, we have laws that a...

When I posted about the case of the Los Angeles firefighter that secured benefits for incurring an injury while trimming a wisteria plant a...