Risk, mining industry growth, drug repackaging, E&O, SIGS & more news of note
Risk roundup – Nina Kallen posts the latest Cavalcade of Risk at Insurance Coverage Law in Massachusetts – check it out. Mining – Joe Paduda talks about the growth of the mining industry, noting that...
View ArticlePhysician drug repackaging, front and center
The drum that our colleague Joe Paduda has been beating for several years – the outrageous cost of repackaged drugs in Florida – appears to be resonating. This esoteric little nook and cranny of...
View ArticlePresumption Laws: Wide Open Door to Benefits
Jimmy Walters worked for the Florida Department of Corrections. In December 2009, he came down with a cold, but continued to work for a week. He suffered from chills and nausea on his days off and then...
View ArticleExclusive Remedy wins: Safe in Florida … for now. Also upheld in DBA suit
The big workers comp news of the week: A three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal overturned a ruling that challenged the concept exclusive remedy: Appeals court tosses out key...
View ArticleIt’s Been A Bumpy Ride Since 1972
In its report to President Nixon, the 1972 National Commission on State Workmen’s Compensation Laws, created by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, concluded that workers’ compensation laws...
View ArticleThe Sunshine State Goes Darth Vader Dark
In 1967, 55 years ago, the Walt Disney World Company proposed building a recreation-oriented development on 25,000 acres of property in Central Florida. The property sat in a remote area of Orange and...
View ArticleFriday Thoughts About Precrime: Alive And Well In The Florida Of Ron DeSantis
Precrime: A predictive policing system dedicated to apprehending and detaining people before they have the opportunity to commit a given crime. The term was coined by Philip K. Dick and became the...
View ArticleRacism In America: The Road To The New Jim Crow Runs Along The School To...
The story of mass incarceration in America is bigger than American jails and prisons, even with their two million captives. And it’s bigger than probation and parole, even with the five million people...
View ArticleFlorida’s Governor Ron DeSantis Builds His Educational Petrie Dish
I know it’s masochistic, but I couldn’t help it. I found myself thinking about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his all-out assault on education, specifically education about racism, Wokism (if that’s...
View ArticleDoes Ron DeSantis Actually Believe In What He Says And Does?
When Hitler’s Nazis took complete power on 5 March 1933 the first groups they and the Brownshirts went after hammer and tong were Communists, other political parties (within three months they were all...
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