DePaolo's World

Texas looks good to the industry with low average combined ratios and good profitability. That's not good for injured workers, though...

Flying IMC Sunday was a great flight to go see Mom. The second of two troughs of low pressure was making its way through Southern Cal...

Jennifer Christian, MD, President, Webility Corporation and Chair, Work Fitness & Disability Section, American College of Occupational ...

Today the check goes out in the mail to the New York State Workers' Compensation Board. It's a half payment towards WorkCompCentra...

There is an old workers' compensation maxim as it relates to the employer - employee relationship: The employer takes the employee as he...

Yesterday I wrote about Martha, an emotionally trying case that warranted the most expeditious claims handling that could be mustered, and ...

The workers' compensation system is obsessed with costs. Reform legislation around the country is nearly uniformly about controlling c...

The extent to which business owners will try to skirt workers' compensation obligations never ceases to amaze me. In California , nurs...

"The seminal moment in the life of any claim is when pay day should have happened and it didn't," Tom Lynch, the founder of th...

There is no question that workers' compensation can be an emotionally charged issue for both injured workers and employers. When emotio...

In most instances, the employer is synonymous with the insurance carrier when it comes to matters of workers' compensation, particularly...

A while back I posited that most workers probably don't know what workers' compensation was, or cared, until they have an injury at...

North Carolina is working with a new law that it hopes will help the state deal with illegally uninsured employers more effectively. House B...