A number of years ago I was a member of PETA, until I learned that it did not stand for “People Eating Tasty Animals.” Earlier knowledge of that little tidbit would’ve saved me a ton of embarrassment, and also explain why my fundraising barbeque was such a bust. I should never have gone with the…

People who know me are aware that I have a somewhat significant disdain for many in the mainstream media. This may seem ironic, as the push into expanding our own news services in the last couple years has placed me in the position of serving as a publisher for an outlet that serves thousands of…

If you were to ask me who I would expect to find featured in the pages of a Firefighters Calendar, the answer, “A Workers’ Compensation Agency Director” would not be one of my responses. Yet, it appears that I would be mistaken, as the latest release of the number one firefighter calendar in the world…

There is a new awards/recognition program I would like to announce. It has no winners yet, but it may in the foreseeable future. It will only run once, so it will be easier to manage than things like our annual Best Blogs competition. And it will be a literal game changer for the workers’ compensation…

There has been a clear push in recent years to change the culture of workers’ comp across the nation with better communication, clearer language and an emphasis on ultimate recovery. This is a difficult task, as the legislative complexities of comp and entrenched interests within the system make this industry a very difficult ship to…

I realize it is only Wednesday, but it certainly feels like the end to a long yet productive week. I arrived in Orlando last Friday evening for the 73rdAnnual Workers Compensation Institute Conference, and will finally be returning home today. The conference did not officially kick off until Monday, but WCI ensures that there is…

At a recent gathering of employers, I heard a representative of a large company tell the assembled that, after a particularly expensive year of workers’ compensation costs, he decided to “get involved” and work to get better legislation for “controlling costs.” While I understood his end objective I could not help but think that the…

The concept of Evidence Based Medicine has certainly been gaining ground in the workers’ compensation universe in recent years. The adaptation has not been easy, and certainly the concept still has its opponents. Yet, the question was recently posed to me; If we now use Evidence Based Medicine, why can we not adopt Evidence Based…

We’ve scheduled our fifth Hot Seat Webinar, and I’m really pleased with the way it is shaping up. Entitled “Impairing the Guides: The Legal Assault on the 6th Edition,” it will take an in depth look at what is behind the legal challenges we are seeing around the nation to the 6thedition of the AMA…

This morning finds me in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I am here for the funeral of my aunt, Joy Wilson. She passed away last week after a long fight with Alzheimer’s. I was here at the same funeral home just a few years ago, when her husband, my father’s brother Dave, passed away. While I am…