DePaolo's World

Insurance is a highly regulated industry because it involves lots of money exchanging hands, which influences greed, and some can't cont...

I love racing, particularly motorcycle racing. I grew up on motorcycles. Though I didn't get my first motorized two wheels until age 1...

Peter Lynch is probably one of the most famous investors ever. As the head of Magellan Fund for 13 years, he averaged returns of 29.2% ann...

So much of what we talk about in work comp is related to claims, but we forget that before claims there has to be a policy covering those ...

The California Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau will be proposing to the Department of Insurance a mid-year rate decrease ...

One of my pet projects is getting the next generation into the work comp world to take up the slack of all us gray hairs (or in my case, no ...

My broken record mantra: workers' compensation has three stakeholders: employer, employee and government. Everyone else is a vendor. ...

How fair does the workers' compensation system have to be to an insurance company? Certainly an insurance company has much more resource...

Boscoe is simple... Workers' compensation is designed to benefit two opposite interests: the people that get hurt doing work and the...

Most of insured America doesn't know how good it is. I'm talking about Market Competition for workers' compensation insurance....

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

Disclaimer - I'm no economist. I leave that stuff up to Bob Hartwig and his team over at Insurance Information Institute. I just know...

I buy pretty much everything over the Internet now. Looking at my receipts over the past couple of months: there were motorcycle and bicyc...

Going or coming? One rule of statutory construction is that the courts make assumptions based on prior law - that is if a legislature ...

Dyea (pronounced "dieee") went from a couple hundred residents to about 10,000 in a year as it was the entrance to the Yukon Gold...