I was at a dinner Wednesday night when I got into an animated discussion about gun control with a lawyer in our group. Someone had made a comment regarding guns, and the conversation soon turned to the topic of arming school teachers. Our lawyer friend did not seem to agree with the concept, and the…

I was so close this morning. Sooooooo close. It was 6AM, the aircraft’s doors were closed, and jetway pulled back. The all too familiar safety orientation was complete. In just 2 hours and 16 minutes from “wheels up” I was going to be back in Florida, in the loving arms of my family. And the…

This morning finds me headed to Chicago, for yet another seminar produced by the National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN). This year the group reports an expected record attendance, with almost 300 people registered for the event. I’ve written about the NWCDN seminars on numerous occasions. They are taking on a fraternal feel for me,…

Yesterday I published an article about a young woman who created all manner of sensation by revealing she had undergone a procedure giving her a “third breast”. The announcement was accompanied by pictures and videos, and became viral, being published in many publications, including this blog. My point was that this was an issue of…

It simply boggles my teeny weenie mind. An Oklahoma man who apparently never worked as a firefighter signed up for fire fighting training and died during the course. The insurer of a volunteer fire fighting company whose Chief says no one in the company ever met the man has had to pay more than $200,000…

As of Friday, Oregon workers’ compensation insurer SAIF has a brand spanking new Board – well, at least 3/5th’s of them are brand spanking new. Maurice Rahming, Jeff Stone and Jennifer Ulum were all nominated by Governor Kitzhaber and officially installed effective September 19, 2014. Let us hope at least one of them is a…

A hat tip to Judge David Langham, whose blog on the topic (republished on our site here) tipped me off to this story this morning. An insurance company covering the NFL has filed a lawsuit against former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Brad Culpepper alleging fraud from a California injury suit settled in 2011. Culpepper took advantage…

As a warning you should know that this is another risqué, adult oriented article, and you should not proceed if you are easily offended by the unvarnished truth. Plus, I’m about to ruin take out pizza for you. Sorry. The world of employment risk would certainly be easier to navigate if we didn’t have to…

My blog recently surpassed another milestone, but this time it was more an indication of interest in a single story than a testament to my feeble vocabulary and lackluster wordsmith capabilities. Last year, on September 10, 2013, my blog proudly passed the 1,000,000 article view mark, having taken just over two years to reach that…

I spent much of last week in the mountains of Montana, attending and speaking at the Montana Governors' Conference on Workers' Compensation.  It was a great event held at Big Sky Resort; probably one of the most beautiful conference locations I've ever attended.  It also provided one of the best safety messages I've ever heard.…