DePaolo's World

Basking in the bucolic bliss of the Renaissance Indian Wells Resort & Spa attending the P ublic Agency Risk Managers Assoc . annual c...

The Dog Days of Summer are here in full force. It was generally a hundred degrees with nearly 100% humidity every day of the 70th Annual W...

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

Life is a risk - embrace it, don't dispute it. Workers' compensation is supposed to be a "no fault" system. The basi...

We all basically know that the longer someone is off work due to a work injury, the more likely there's going to be increased disability...

If the mission had been to procure a donut the result may have been different. The Appellate Court of Connecticut said in a decision rel...

The California Supreme Court this week denied review of a case where logic was actually applied by the lower courts. Though unfortunate for ...

What if the ebola virus is industrially acquired? Working abroad, or health worker infected... The general media yesterday ran headlines ab...

The top headline in the Sunday Edition of the Los Angeles Times was about ... you guessed it ... workers' compensation. Nothing is go...

As you likely are aware, Mom is in a memory care facility, so the California Supreme Court's ruling on whether a patient (or the famil...

Political machinations create the complexity we know as workers' compensation law. California is the prime example, with several bills m...

Colorado workers' compensation practitioners speculate in this morning's edition of WorkCompCentral news whether the state, being t...

I've blogged before that presumptions in workers' compensation tend to prolong litigation and make for bad precedence , and a recen...

Fraud. Mention workers' compensation to nearly any lay person on the street and nearly everyone knows someone who has defrauded the s...

A Pennsylvania case about home care hit ... ahem ... home, since my parents are under the watchful eyes of 24 hour caretakers, particularly ...