Month: January 2026

It’s almost that time again. The time when some of the best and brightest minds in workers’ compensation converge on a frigid New England city to discuss the state of our beloved industry. Yes, the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) is once again hosting its annual Issues & Research Conference, this year running March 3-4,…

Those of you who have been reading this blog for any length of time know that I’m not shy about trumpeting accomplishments – mine, those of people I work with, or those of the broader industry when it gets something right. Today is one of those days. This week, January 12th and 13th, something historic…

There’s an old saw in the safety world that says the rules are written in blood. It’s a grim reminder that most workplace safety regulations exist because someone, somewhere, was hurt or killed doing something that now has a rule against it. Sometimes, though, we get a reminder that the blood continues to flow even…

Thirteen years ago, in 2012, I had what seemed to me at the time to be a fairly simple idea: What if we stopped calling this industry “workers’ compensation” and started calling it “Workers’ Recovery” instead? Now, before you dismiss this as merely semantic navel-gazing from an industry blogger with too much time on his hands, hear…

For the past seven months, I’ve been viewing the world through what I can only describe as several layers of industrial-grade Saran Wrap. My right eye, which had faithfully served me over numerous decades, decided last June that it had seen enough of my shenanigans and essentially went on strike. Two weeks ago, I had…