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…

An entrepreneur in France has invented a pill that will give flatulence the smell of roses. I could just end this blog post with that statement, and let your wicked imagination take you for a ride, but no, that is not my style. You gots to get my opinion on the matter. Or in this…

We had just finished the national bloggers’ panel at the National Workers’ Compensation Conference, where one of the things we had discussed was how employers can improve outcomes by being more engaged, concerned and communicative with their injured workers, especially early in the claim cycle. I was approached by an attendee who happens to be…

Yesterday morning employees of SAIF Corporation received an email from Interim CEO John Gilkey announcing that VP of Operations and Human Resources Ryan Fleming had resigned effective immediately. Fleming was indicated by company documents to be a central player in what is now being called Plotkin-Gate, where former CEO John Plotkin was terminated after just…

It was about a week and a half ago, but it feels like only 10 days or so. Several of us gathered at the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference in Las Vegas to resurrect our role on the National Bloggers Panel; to once again save the workers’ compensation world from imminent destruction. Fellow bloggers…