From Bob's Cluttered Desk

There were a couple speakers at last weeks AASCIF 2015 conference that touched heavily on the concept of innovation and change; a big focus of the overall event. Terry Jones, founder of the original online travel agency Travelocity and founding Chairman of kayak.com, made it an outright part of his presentation. Dom Sagolla, one of…

I’m headed home today from AASCIF 2015, and hopefully I’ll have time on the plane to start putting some of my thoughts into written form. This was, without a doubt, a “leadership vision conference” that surpassed anything I’ve seen before – anywhere. In the interim, however, I would like you to take a look at…

We’ve just completed the second full day of AASCIF 2015 here in San Francisco, and I honestly don’t even know where to begin. Seriously, while this event has always been known as a fun conference with good speakers and outstanding events, this year has been off the charts when it comes to the actual conference…

Last January my wife was in a minor car accident. She and her father had just left his house and were on their way to St. Petersburg to visit her brother, who was in the hospital. While sitting at a red light, they were rear ended by a woman in a small truck.  Neither my…

Workplace deaths within restaurants are rare, but do occasionally occur. Most often food service fatalities are the result of robbery or a non-job related medical emergency. A death that occurred last week at Buddy’s Seafood Market in Panama City, Florida, however, was the rarest kind of all. One worker killed a co-worker as the result…

© LRP Publications – Republished with permission The picture above was published last week in Risk and Insurance Magazine’s Workers' Comp Forum. It was included in an article about the release of the agenda for the 2015 National Workers' Compensation and Disability Conference in Las Vegas next November. It is always a great conference that…

It is a lesson that should be loud and clear for employers across the nation. Genetics, DNA and employee privacy are not things to be taken lightly, or at all for that matter. In this case, the unfortunate experience of Atlas Logistics Group Retail Services can literally be summed up as the poop heard round…

Thank God for Ohio. I mean, if it wasn't for the Buckeye state, the people here in Florida would truly dominate the wacky quadrant of the news. With the weirdo's and idiots living amongst us in the Sunshine State we would expect to look truly superior in the nutzoid department. But thanks to Ohio, a…

Recognizing that significant delays in recovery drive tremendous increases in spend for workers' compensation claims, the company MedRisk has responded with an innovative program that tackles psychosocial factors behind many of the issues associated with the trend. The program, called MedRisk Restore, is addressing the issue of injured workers who are “disengaged” from life activities,…

Fraud, when discussed in the context of workers' compensation, is an interesting thing that many can't seem to agree on. Some injured workers will tell you that there is virtually no such thing as workers' comp fraud (except for all the fraud committed against them by the entire world – insurers, employers, regulators, Starbucks Baristas…