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Albania Deleon: Death in the Classroom
Posted on May 18, 2009Albania Deleon is a entrepreneur. A legal immigrant and naturalized citizen from the Dominican Republic, she founded and operated Environmental Compliance Training (ECT) in Methuen, Massachusetts, the largest asbestos removal training school in New England...
Health Wonk Review: the biweekly smorgasbord of the best fare in the health care policy blogs
Posted on May 14, 2009Welcome to Health Wonk Review, our bi-weekly smorgasbord of the best that the policy wonks have dished out on some of the most noteworthy healthcare blogs over the prior fortnight. We have an extensive sampling of tasty and nutritious treats, with lots of brain food among the fare - so without further ado, we offer this week's buffet...
Noteworthy blog and Twitter finds
Posted on May 13, 2009We surf the web so you don't have to! From time to time, we like to bring your attention to some new or noteworthy blogs related to workers' comp, healthcare, or other work-related matters. Now we're finding some Twitter feeds, too. Here's our current crop: Judge Tom Talks - Judge Tom Leonard is one of ten judges at the Oklahoma...
Texting and Driving: Dying to Communicate
Posted on May 11, 2009Aiden Quinn is 24 years old. He drives a trolley for the Mass Bay Transit Authority (MBTA or T) in Boston. He has a mediocre driving record, with three speeding violations (while operating a motor vehicle). Last week he was driving a trolley underground between Park Street and Government Center...
Cavalcade of Risk and some quick links
Posted on May 07, 2009Joe Kristan is hosting the latest edition of Cavalcade of Risk at his Tax Update Blog. Unsurprisingly, swine flu is a common themes in this issue - but there's a grab bag of other risk-related topics, too - check it out! Other links of note: May is Electrical Safety month...
A Firefighter Fights Back
Posted on May 06, 2009Over the past year, we blogged about a couple firefighters who abused the workers comp system. First there was the muscular Albert Arroyo, a Boston firefighter who participated in body building competitions, while collecting comp for a work-related disability...
Barab signals OSHA changes, heightened enforcement
Posted on May 05, 2009We recently announced Jordan Barab's appointment as Acting OSHA administrator and, as expected, he is losing no time in making changes. Last week, he testified at a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the House Committee on Education and Labor, outlining some immediate OSHA changes...
Health Wonk Review and other news from the blogosphere
Posted on April 30, 2009Health Wonk Review - Bob Laszewski hosts this weeks edition of the best healthcare posts on the Web! - check out this week's Health Wonk Review. Pharma - Joe Paduda discusses a planned FDA ban on certain medications which is likely to take a high toll on workers' comp since they are "old stand-bys, drugs that have long been used...
Swine Flu part 2 - links to helpful resources for employers
Posted on April 29, 2009To follow up on my colleague Jon's Monday post on Swine Flu Meets Workers Comp, we've compiled a list of swine flu news and planning resources for employers. How Employers Should Respond to the Swine Flu Outbreak - the Workplace Safety Compliance Practice Group of the employment law firm Jackson Lewis suggests 8 steps for employers to take in responding...
Indoor Football: Piling On the Sanctions
Posted on April 28, 2009The Sioux Fall Storm are members of the Indoor Football league (not to be confused with the Arena Football League, although, truth be told, I am confused). They have won the league championship four years in a row (bet you did not know that) and were well on their way to a 5th title, having won their first six games...
Swine Flu Meets Workers Comp
Posted on April 27, 2009It's only Monday morning and many of us are just refocusing after a weekend of gardening, football drafts, NBA playoffs, baseball (Ellsbury steals home!), so we are probably not quite ready to think about the unthinkable: a potential swine flu pandemic, originating in Mexico and already active in several major American cities...
Cavalcade of Risk #76
Posted on April 22, 2009SuperSaver at My Wealth Builder hosts this week's edition of Cavalcade of Risk with an assortment of posts on five categories of risk: Insurance, Health, Business, Investment and Personal. RIMS Update - Joe Paduda is blogging about RIMS - follow his comments for day 1 or day 2, or follow his Twitter feed...
AIG in Iraq: A Cruel Way to Make a Buck
Posted on April 21, 2009AIG has been in the news mostly for its ingenious method of losing money: insuring the riskiest possible financial transactions and tanking after these risks go bad. But give the biggest insurance company in the world some credit. They still know how to make money the old fashioned way: collecting premiums and denying claims...
Great news for worker safety: Jordan Barab named to OSHA
Posted on April 19, 2009In catching up on blog reading this weekend, we find we missed an important piece of good news last week: via Liz Borkowski at The Pump Handle, we learn that longtime safety advocate and erstwhile safety blogger Jordan Barab has been named Deputy Assistant Secretary for OSHA and Acting Assistant Secretary...
Fresh Health Wonk Review; Safety resources
Posted on April 16, 2009Glenn Laffel has a a new edition of Health Wonk Review posted over at Pizaazz - the "US Health Care Carousel of Progress" edition. Glenn is one of our newest contributors to HWR - check out his blog, too. Coal Mining - Check out Coal Tattoo, a blog by Ken Ward Jr...
Ask yourself: Do you feel lucky today?
Posted on April 15, 2009Today, we thought we'd focus on risk in the larger sense rather than just in the workplace. This is prompted by our having chanced upon an interesting article by John Goekler, who poses the question, The Most Dangerous Person in the World? Not to offer a spoiler, but he answers this question at the outset of the article, and the...
Fancy Pants and Broken Lives
Posted on April 14, 2009The Sunday Times had an article about tough times in Palm Beach, where the super-wealthy reside. They like to shop at Trillion, a store that kind of indicates, by the name, that if you have to ask how much something costs you don't belong in the store...
When the Bond is Broken: Workers Comp and Lay Offs
Posted on April 13, 2009Last week Julie Ferguson blogged the interface between workers comp and recessions. For the most part, the news is good: during tough economic times, the frequency of injuries goes down, as workers hunker down and do their jobs as well and as safely as possible...
Workers comp and safety in a recession
Posted on April 09, 2009Recessions tend to place downward pressure on workers' compensation frequency, according to NCCI economists who made a recent presentation to the Casualty Actuarial Society. That makes sense. Reduced payrolls means fewer claims. Plus, with potential layoffs looming, some employees may be reluctant to report injuries - which might be part of the reason why there can be an uptick in...
Rocky Mountain Two Step: Destabilize and Deprivitize?
Posted on April 09, 2009Colorado, like most states, is facing a serious budget deficit. They are scrambling to balance the budget. So the legislature came up with the brilliant idea of tapping the reserves set aside by Pinnacol, the state's largest provider of workers comp coverage, with 70 percent of businesses in the fold...
A World of Risk
Posted on April 08, 2009The latest edition of Cavalcade of Risk, hosted by Joseph Leppard, is available here. Oh my, there's risk aplenty: in health care, in life, in investing and in the economy. Perhaps it's time to create a Cavalcade of Safe Havens (assuming, of course, that such places still exist)...
OSHA under fire from DOL Inspector General reports
Posted on April 07, 2009OSHA has come under withering criticism in a report from the Department of Labor's inspector general for improperly enforcing safety and health laws against high risk employers with a history of safety violations and/or fatalities. In summarizing the report, Occupational Health & Safety notes: "The March 31 report says EEP [Enforced Enhancement Program] was mismanaged so badly that OSHA did...
The Yogi Berra HWR, plus AIG, Florida lawyers, scaffolding & more news notes
Posted on April 02, 2009Anthony Wright hosts Health Wonk Review at Health Access WeBlog this week, and he serves up some of the wit and wisdom of baseball great Yogi Berra with this week's best of the health care blogs. It's a perfect posting for our times when "the future ain't what it used to be...
New York Workers Comp: Truth Stranger than Friction
Posted on April 01, 2009The New York Times has a fascinating, two-part article about serious problems in New York's workers comp system (parts one and two). New York has long been famous for its bizarre system, which is among the most expensive in the nation, even though its benefits have been among the lowest...
Judge Body-Slams Grapplers
Posted on March 31, 2009Back in September we blogged a lawsuit filed by three former wrestlers of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), the colorful circus of flying bodies managed by Vince McMahon. The wrestlers claimed that they were not independent contractors, but employees of WWE and entitled to all the benefits of employment...
Safety Bob ? Charisma in Motion
Posted on March 30, 2009Julie Ferguson's gut-wrenching post from Thursday morning, "It's Spring?and the Start of Trench Death Season," made me think of a truly remarkable gentleman that I met a few months ago in North Carolina ? Bob Synnett. Mr. Synnett, or Safety Bob, as he's known in the Carolinas, is a great big bundle of charismatic energy...
At Work - a photo essay
Posted on March 27, 2009Just a short post we though you might enjoy - At Work, a beautiful portfolio of photos of people's work lives from around the world. This appeared in The Boston Globe's wonderful feature called The Big Picture - if you aren't familiar with it, check out a few of the other topical or news-related photo essays, which are posted every...
It's spring ... and the start of trench death season
Posted on March 26, 2009Almost with the predictability of the swallows returning to Capistrano, the spring ushers in a season of frustratingly preventable trench deaths. Earlier this week, a Baltimore worker narrowly escaped death after spending 6 hours buried up to his chest in dirt...
The high price of fresh tomatoes: more on agricultural slavery in Florida
Posted on March 24, 2009Barry Estabrook of Gourmet takes a look at the tomato harvesting industry in Florida and it's not pretty. In Politics of the Plate: The Price of Tomatoes he suggests that if you've eaten a tomato this winter, it's likely that it was picked by a virtual slave...
Health Care Reform and the Cost of Comp
Posted on March 23, 2009The Mercury News offers some potentially bad news for California employers. After four years of comp reform, with rates dropping a staggering 63 percent, the trend is now headed - perhaps precipitously - in the other direction. The Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is requesting an increase of 24...
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