From Bob's Cluttered Desk

One Monday morning a couple months back I opened my garage door preparing to leave for the office. A Waste Management truck had just pulled up out front, and the worker on the back of the truck hopped off to empty our trash cans. He saw me and waved, and we exchanged pleasantries as I…

I am very fortunate, as I have several “right arms” here at WorkersCompensation.com. Sadly however, I am losing one of them today.  I first met Jim Malachowski when he became one of my customers, and we worked together to build a website for a professional photographer association he belonged to. Jim was very hands on…

I am in the Four Corners area taking a few personal days celebrating my fathers’ 95th birthday, in what is turning out to be an almost complete family reunion (my wife was the only person unable to attend due to scheduling conflicts at home). However, I wanted to take a moment for a very quick…

I was once told by a Florida fraud investigator that the incidence of fraud in workers’ compensation was about a 50/50 scenario between employers and employees. He followed that statement up however, by saying “but by far the really, really big dollar fraud is on the employer side”. A case that broke a few weeks…

There are many beautiful places here in Sarasota that I could recommend if you ever visit the area. One spot I just added to the list is the Sarasota National Cemetery. Opened in 2009, and called by many the “Arlington of the South”, it is already the final resting place for more than 8,000 veterans…

It’s Friday, the holidays are approaching, and no one in workers’ compensation is really paying attention to anything terribly important. Sounds like a perfect opportunity for my blog. Besides, I could tell you about this next week, but you would have missed it. And I would hate to have that happen. And since website traffic…

Monitoring employee behavior and service ability is a difficult, if not monumental task. Many employees, particularly those engaged in direct customer service,  do not operate within the direct line of sight of their supervisors, so proper hiring selection and training are paramount to making sure employees are doing the intended job. Some systems have evolved…

The call for submissions went out last week,Articles of risk is the thing that they seek. For Edition 223 it has now come time, And this CAV shall be entirely in rhyme. With Henry (or Hank), Tim, Julie too, And other skilled writers scribing for you, The world of risk is brought to your door,…

There is a bill working its way through the legislative sausage process in Washington, DC that, if successful, will have profound positive impact on millions of people with disabilities. It is not a new layer of complex regulations, or a swath of new dependency inducing benefits. No, it is an opportunity for the government to…

I read about a California nurse over the weekend who filed a workers’ compensation claim after injuring herself. She told her employer, a hospital, that she hurt her back “while waking up from a nightmare”. I wondered aloud how waking up from a nightmare could in any way be associated with her job. My wife…