Year: 2013

I was a presenter at the Idaho Industrial Commission’s Annual Workers’ Compensation Seminar in Boise Thursday. While I was very happy to have the opportunity to fly here from Florida and blather on for an hour, just attending the keynote presentation itself would have been worth the trip. The Keynote presenter was Dr. David Pate,…

I didn’t think it was possible. But it could be happening. I have had some small enjoyment through the years poking fun at TSA over some of their airport security procedures. And although I have noted recently that they seemed to be getting noticeably friendlier, the basic hernia checking procedure has remained largely the same.…

For those of us who have been critical of the Affordable Care Act and concerned that the government would botch an already flawed concept, the past three weeks have definitely been ones to behold. You would have to have been living under a rock to not know about the massive failure of the new program's…

This is a tale of true love. A story about a man and a woman; a man who loved his fiancé deeply, and a woman, taken too soon by cancer, who loved her job.  She wanted her cremated remains scattered where she had spent many an enjoyable hour at the place where she worked. He…

To a great degree, the person we are right now is a current result of the accumulative experiences of our lifetime. Certainly genetics plays a role in “who we are”, but our upbringing and interactions to this point in time have had major impact in both our continuing development and core values of today. Part…

Yesterday David North, president and CEO of Sedgwick, provided the keynote address at the National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN) Fall Seminar in Hartford. North covered a broad range of challenges facing our industry today.  It was encouraging to hear him speak of the need to focus on fast, effective medical treatment, and the importance…

I am moderating a panel tomorrow at the National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network’s Fall Seminar in Hartford, CT. The panel, in a session called “Challenges in Workers’ Compensation: How Do We Get to 2023?” immediately follows keynote speaker, David North, CEO of Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc. North will be speaking on “Workers’ Compensation Industry…

I cannot believe my good luck. It was the veritable needle in the haystack, yet there it was. I've said several times that I am the Jerry Springer of workers' comp. While others, more burdened with intellectual prowess and stoic dignity than I possess, write lengthy expositions concerning highly technical legal and medical topics, I…

It seems that OSHA should consider, if they ever reopen that is, the regulation of the unseemly underworld of crime. The people who toil there to make a living are routinely exposed to dangers not generally present for those who work on the right side of the law. One of the most recent examples of…

Never mind what you think of the Affordable Care Act. Never mind what your perceptions are of its impact, or how it will affect health care in this nation. This is now simply a story of execution – or botched execution as it were – of a major government effort. It is a story of…