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  • 2008
    • August
      • NOT UR'D
        08/18/08
        Not UR'd.

        The Governor, that is.

        The Governor found time to go have a quick knee arthroscopy while the legislature was in full food fight mode over the budget over the budget.
        Since the torn ligament was non-industrial, there was no need to wade through ACOEM review u

      • BREAKING: WCIRB RECOMMENDS LARGE RATE INCREASE
        08/13/08
        The WCIRB has just announced that it plans to recommend to Insurance Commissioner Poizner a 16% increase in workers' comp rates effective 1/1/09. The actual "filing"
        (a recommendation with the Department of Insurance) will be coming in the next few days.

        The Insurance

      • A DIFFERENT FOCUS
        08/11/08
        Think back a few years.

        Many in the press and public believed that California workers' comp was rife with worker fraud. The vision was fed by the occasional arrest shown on the 10 o'clock news. Or the story that doctor and attorney mills were feeding on each other, treating work

      • AB 515: STRANGE BREW...WHAT'S INSIDE OF YOU MAY KILL YA
        08/07/08
        Strange brew-what's inside of you may kill ya. Strange brew. Strange brew.

        I'm sitting here pondering the fate of AB 515, a bill currently under consideration in the California legislature that would regulate worker chemical exposures.

        I can hear the guitar riffs now

      • BUSH RUSHES TO CHANGE WORKPLACE TOXIN RULES
        08/05/08
        My car keys are on a digital clock that counts down the days, hours and minutes til the end of the Bush Presidency.

        This hapless POTUS failed to press a war that needed to be won decisively against the Taliban and Qaeda (Afghanistan) and put us in a war that didn't need to be fought

      • TRENDWATCH: FUNDING EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION FROM PENSIONS
        08/04/08
        At a time when workers compensation benefits have been reduced and worker benefit packages shrunk, you'd think that many companies would have "cooled it" on executive compensation.

        Not so.

        Today's Wall Street Journal article by Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Fran

      • OBAMA & THE FOLKS IN BENTONVILLE
        08/01/08
        Those folks in Bentonville are at it again. Wal-Mart is jumping into the political arena.

        Today's Wall Street Journal reports that Wal-Mart is organizing all its store managers and department heads to warn that an Obama victory would make it easier for workers to unionize.

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