DePaolo's World

I have never really understood why the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has been so vehemently against opt out. While it ...

The relevancy of workers' compensation is in question , so that is bringing industry professionals, and injured workers, together in var...

My new MacBook Air arrived yesterday to my surprise. It wasn't supposed to be here until this afternoon. Recall that on Thursday I d...

The first day of the Workers Compensation Research Institute's annual conference  was chock full of data, statistics and info...

Oklahoma is probably the least likely state one would imagine to be the epicenter of workers' compensation controversy, but since the ...

The Supremacy Clause in the United States Constitution dictates that federal law takes precedence over state law. Article VI of the U.S. C...

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

The recent $2.2 million jury award against non-subscriber Tyson Foods in Texas for a back injury had WorkCompCentral legal reporter, She...

You knew it was going to happen. A group of technology executives, financiers, labor union leaders and public policy experts sent a lett...

John Coll's bronze of Brendan Behan The negative image of workers' compensation and it's opt-out partner painted by the ge...

It's easy to vilify Bill Minick and Mellisa Tonn. The latest ProPublica story on work place injury systems, " Inside Corporate...

An Oklahoma appellate court decision put a chink in the armor of one of opt out proponents' major advantage over traditional worker...