Cavalcade of Risk is being hosted by Spencer Hill at Hill's Personal Finance Blog. He's got a good roundup of posts on a variety or risk-related matters from business to personal exposures - check it out! Kudos - Congratulations to Michael Fitzgibbon for his five year "blogiversary" at Thoughts From a Management Lawyer, a blawg (or law blog) that offers...

If today is an average day, more than 2,000 people will have an eye injury at work. And tomorrow, the risk is even greater because the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says that more eye injuries occur on Wednesdays than any other day of the week. While many eye injuries will be relatively minor, about 5 percent will be debilitating...

Rosemary Verga worked for United Airlines as a staff representative in human resources. This seems an odd choice for a woman described by co-workers as "a difficult person to get along with" - "impolite, unpleasant" and quick to explode. In addition to being rude, inflexible, easily upset and demeaning toward others. All in all, a rather marginal member of the...

Joshua Christopherson is a supervisor of sales for Prosper, Inc., a Utah company that peddles on-line training and motivation courses. The courses range in price from $3,000 to $15,000. By most accounts Christopherson is a decent enough guy, albeit a bit obsessed with the performance of his sales team. He apparently read about an incident involving the ancient Greek philosopher...

Daniel Goldberg has posted an excellent new edition of Health Wonk Review at his Medical Humanities Blog. This week's roundup from the brainiacs of health wonkery encompasses everything from the usual health policy debates to alcopops, including a handful of posts on legal matters and new legislation. RIMS - Joe Paduda of Managed Care Matters has been blogging his observations...

James Campbell taught art classes at Denny High School in Stirlingshire, Scotland. He filed a discrimination claim under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), the UK's equivalent of our ADA. His disability? Baldness. He claimed that he had suffered from harassment at the hands of pupils because of his lack of hair. Judge Robert Gall (we will resist the temptation to...

Today is Workers Memorial Day, a day that is dedicated to recognizing workers who have been killed or injured on the job. It was started by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in 1984 and began here in the U.S. in 1989. Today, it is marked by workers across the globe. It occurs on April 28 in recognition of...

A labor group in our neighbor to the North, New Brunswick, Canada, is seeking an end to the three day waiting period for workers comp benefits. "We really believe it is unfair," said Michel Boudreau, president of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour. The federation has pitched the idea of scrapping the three-day waiting period, during which employees receive no...

We're honored to be hosting this 50th edition of Cavalcade of Risk, a smörgåsbord of some of the best posts from blogs that focus on the realm of risk. We have a hefty helping of posts so we'll dispense with further formalities and just dig right in. Health Care Which countries have the best health care systems? That's a question...

In conventional medicine, people are generally free to choose their care, up to the limits of their coverage. They can opt for certain procedures or decide to forego them. For the most part, adults are independent players in the medical system, acting in accord with their own wishes. In the final analysis, our health is an individual concern, factoring in,...

A reader sent us a story from the Boston Globe that we previously missed about contractors who are suing KBR for toxic exposures to sodium dichromate in Iraq. Nine Americans are suing the erstwhile Halliburton subsidiary for " ...knowingly exposing them to the deadly substance and failing to provide them with the protective equipment needed to keep them safe." Sodium...

While working late one Friday night to meet a publication deadline, Nicholas White decided to take a smoke break. It lasted 41 hours. White worked on the 43rd floor of the McGraw Hill Building in downtown Manhattan. His descent in the elevator on his way to the smoke break was uneventful, but on the trip back up, the elevator got...

Maggie Mahar and Niko Karvounis have posted a fine new edition of Health Wonk Review at Health Beat. They've done superlative work in summarizing and commenting on each post, making it a very good read indeed. While visiting Health Beat, be sure to check out some of Maggie's other posts - in the sidebar, there's a collection of links to...

Gina Kolata writes in the New York Times that health insurance companies are adopting a new pricing system for some of the most expensive drugs, pushing more of the cost onto consumers. It goes by the innocent sounding name of "Tier 4." It might as well be called "bankruptcy for the seriously ill." All insurers require a co-pay on prescriptions,...

Trouble brewing in Florida - Joe Paduda of Managed Care Matters is looking at a proposed regulation in Florida for hospital reimbursement and he is not liking what he sees. He says its a situation that is likely to "scare the pants off you." Medical apartheid - Richard Eskow of Sentinel Effect posts about recent studies by the Robert Wood...