Pike’s Pique: The Stress of Behaving Badly
John Pike may be the most (in)famous campus cop in America. He was video taped on November 18, 2011, at the University of California, Davis, spraying seated demonstrators with pepper spray. His...
View ArticleDying On The Job in Boston
We lost two firefighters in Boston, yesterday. A 9-alarm fire on Beacon Street in Boston’s Back Bay, aided by 45 to 50 mile per hour winds off the Charles River, took the lives of Lt. Edward J. Walsh...
View ArticleWhere’s Aristotle When ABC Needs Him?
This morning, ABC’s Good Morning America shone its media arclight on Cathy Caswell as she spun the great big wheel on The Price is Right, not once, but twice. But while doing so Ms. Caswell was drawing...
View ArticleUndocumented Immigrants In The Workers Comp Bullseye?
This morning, Work Comp Central’s Mike Whiteley published a well-researched 2,500+ word article focusing on the plight of undocumented immigrant workers who get hurt on the job. His article,...
View ArticleWorkers Compensation & the Executive Order on Immigration
At his blog Working Immigrants, Peter Rousmaniere has been tracking various public policy, health and work issues related to the underground economy of undocumented workers since 2006. His blog is a...
View ArticleExclusive Remedy wins: Safe in Florida … for now. Also upheld in DBA suit
The big workers comp news of the week: A three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal overturned a ruling that challenged the concept exclusive remedy: Appeals court tosses out key...
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Fifty States, Fifty Different Laws: A Peter Rousmaniere Analysis
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Consumer Price Index calculator, what you bought for $100 in 1973 would today cost $533.82. Despite this, during that same period wage growth for the...
View ArticleMore COVID-19 Quick Takes
Workers’ compensation and the disease COVID-19 is presenting some interesting and perplexing issues for workers’ compensation. Among them are: Claims adjusters and Nurse Case Managers are far more...
View ArticleImportant COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Questions
Economic chickens are coming home to roost all over America. Except for the one percenters, and I may be wrong about them, everyone is feeling it, the pain. Biomedical devastation is leading us to...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Two Updates
Who pays? The last question asked in our question-filled Post of 13 May was the same as the first question asked, namely: Who’s the guy at the end of the line left holding the bill for COVID-19...
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