DePaolo's World

One of my wife's dear childhood friends grew up to be a local cop. If you met her it'd be obvious; she's a tough lady. Cathy r...

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...

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

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

California workers' compensation claims stay open longer, much longer, than the national average and as a consequence cost a whole lot m...

The Workers' Compensation Research Institute out of Boston, MA, last week released another of its CompScope Benchmarks reports (req...

Serendipity seems to follow me. I was, of course, at the National Workers' Compensation and Disability Conference at the Mandalay in V...

Florida’s Office of the Judges of Compensation Claims will release its report to the state legislature in a few days as required by law. Chi...

Yesterday I espoused about our industry penchant to make a very simple proposition much more complex and difficult than necessary. We introd...

Just in time for the Insurance Council of Texas' annual workers' compensation conference in a couple weeks, a Texas appellate cour...

The employment relationship is often defined by timing, and sometimes influenced by the potential dispute resolution forum. A recent Pennsy...

Jose Nunez worked as a laborer and driver for Dig Right In Landscaping in Illinois. He claimed that he injured his right shoulder while loa...

State jurisdictional issues are rare, but not unusual in workers' compensation. International jurisdictional issues are even more rare...

A new comer to the workers' compensation industry remarked to me a very simple truism - an underlying fundamental in workers' compen...

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

The practice of workers' compensation law is relatively relaxed, at least in California, but I suspect the same in most of the rest of t...