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"Content Warning: This website contains language that is offensive or harmful. Please engage with this website at your own pace." We are not sure how we reached that conclusion, as it is abundantly and objectively […]

In the darkness of a deep December night, he sat bolt upright in bed, startled by a disturbing dream. In it, he saw sunflowers against an azure sky, weary children with innocent eyes, tearful embraces, […]

I have known Jacob Schickel for a number of years. I will save us both the embarrassment of stating how long. I have known Judge Ralph Humphries for about as long. They were both "old […]

While workers’ comp payers invest considerable resources to manage and settle claims, they don’t always prepare Medicare-eligible injured workers for life after settlement. These patients have usually been in the workers’ comp system for several […]

Randy Brooks wrote the song back in 1977, which has become a classic. Not too much from that era can be called "classic." In it, Mr. Brooks describes an untoward outcome of a forgetful matriarch […]

Leave it to some misguided folks in the California legislature to come up with solutions to non-problems, solutions that will do more harm than good. That’s just what AB1127 does…shortening the time period for employers […]

Anyone that has visited this blog has perceived the impacts of COVID-19 on workers' compensation. Many of the related posts (about 25) are linked in Florida Covid-19 Litigation September Update (September 2020). Links to about 32 more […]

Our complex global economy is fraught with uncertainty. Companies today must contend with numerous factors beyond their control that jeopardize their ability to conduct business as usual. The past few years have brought new levels […]