From Bob's Cluttered Desk

There has been a tremendous amount of chit chat lately about the incredible advances we are seeing in automation and artificial intelligence. Experts are predicting that by the year 2025, fully one half of all jobs that exist today will be automated out of existence. Those experts should stop predicting that. They are drawing attention…

The year 2014 is now officially just a memory, and as we embark on yet another bold new annual term we look back on that which recently was, ponder its significance, and move onward, likely destined to encounter many of the same mistakes and human foibles all over again. Such as it is with the…

Just when the year is winding down and you think you’ve heard everything, we offer one more tidbit of inanity to show that no matter how stupid you think people can be, there is someone out there willing to prove that the boundaries of brainlessness are virtually unlimited. Not to mention, we couldn’t end the…

A study announced recently could potentially revolutionize medical treatment within workers’ compensation and completely destroy the burgeoning fitness industry, as well as totally change the home dynamic for the recalcitrant couch potato. Researchers at Ohio University just published the results of their study in the Journal of Neurophysiology showing that human muscles will respond to…

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…