I’ve been having a great many telephone conversations recently around the central theme of professionalism. There is a sentiment that the detachment brought on by evolving technology, and accelerated by the pandemic, has led to […]

A major feature of the 2022 WCI conference was familiarity. Certainly, we all returned in 2021, following the Great Pandemic. But, that was December, similar, but different. The 2022 experience was much more familiar, August, […]

I recently heard from Horace Middlemier, an old acquaintance in the world of legal practice [1]. He had attended an educational gathering and had a strange experience that he wanted to relate. The question he […]

The subject of gun safety is not new to these pages. See Safety First (November 2021) and Workplace Gun Safety (August 2022). Essentially, workplace safety is everyone's job. Period. There have been investigations into the workplace shooting of Halyna Hutchins, […]

Everyone generally knows of the "first powered flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903," which is noted in One flight in France frenzied the world. That exposition also explains why heavier-than-air flight took 5 years after that […]

A notable recurrent theme in workers' compensation recently is mental health. This dovetails into aspects of the broader focus that has been proposed and advocated in the claims business in recent years. There are those […]

In a nod to the evolving perceptions of healthy eating and exercise in the 1980s, a great James Bond exchange has him sharing with Moneypenny that his current secret assignment was "to eliminate all free […]

In 1989, the contemporary version of Batman was Michael Keeton, and his nemesis Joker was played by Jack Nicholson. The movie provides a smorgasbord of wonderful quotes, but two stick out in my mind. The Joker […]