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Cavalcade of Risk 26 Aug 2013 | 04:38 pm
Check out the recently posted Cavalcade of Risk #190 - August 21st, 2013 Edition posted at the My Personal Finance Journey blog. And watch this space for the next risk roundup, which we'll be hosting ...
News Roundup: Health Wonk Review, Nurses & Violence, Opioid Survey & More 15 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
Catch up on your Health Wonkery - David Williams has posted Health Wonk Review: Dog Daze 2013 over at Health Business Blog. Judging by the number and variety of entries, it would seem the health wonke...
What's odd about this picture? 14 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am
Delaine Davis has been sentenced to 4 to 6 years in Wyoming Women's Center jail. Her crime was workers' compensation fraud of $11,072. She knowingly collected workers comp benefits while being gainful...
Midsummer news roundup 9 Aug 2013 | 06:39 pm
Happier times ahead? - Joe Paduda says that if higher total premiums are your barometer, things are looking decidedly sunny: Brighter days for workers comp. And related to these happier times that Joe...
"He was the greatest roofer I knew and look what happened" 6 Aug 2013 | 06:22 pm
This powerful "digital story" about falls through skylights from the California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) would be an excellent training video for construction workers, builder...
Pike's Pique: The Stress of Behaving Badly 29 Jul 2013 | 08:40 pm
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 demean...
Fall protection at 1776 feet: One World Trade Center 26 Jul 2013 | 05:34 pm
Acrohphobes, take note: this post is about working at extreme heights! We spotted a jaw dropping video in our Twitter feed the other day -- an engineer climbing the spire at the top of the One World ...
Biweekly Risk Roundup is posted: Cavalcade of Risk #188 25 Jul 2013 | 07:49 pm
Nina Kallen hosts the 188th Cavalcade of Risk at Insurance Coverage Law in Massachusetts. It's a varied roundup - Nina notes: "I was struck by their technical and detailed nature. I learned from the p...
IMEs in a New York Minute 23 Jul 2013 | 08:57 pm
Back in 2009, we blogged an expose from the New York Times concerning the abuse of independent medical exams (IMEs) in New York. The article quoted 79 year old Dr. Hershel Samuels, who performed as ma...
Midsummer Health Wonkery, trucking, homicides, bad faith, wearable tech & more 18 Jul 2013 | 06:02 pm
Health Wonk Review - Louise and Jay Norris have posted the newest Health Wonk Review: A Midsummer Wonk's Dream at Colorado Health Insurance Insider . This is a double-plus good issue because HWR is o...