Category Archives: Workers’ Comp

Most Americans were heartened, a few months ago, when Congress enacted and President Obama signed — with considerable fanfare — a law providing financial help for people who got sick after the fall of the World Trade Center in 2001. … Continue reading →

This was submitted to the Albuquerque Journal in response to a Journal news story and published in January 2011. The Journal’s latest report of an apparently outrageous workers’ compensation case touches on a genuine controversy in workers’ compensation (“Drunken Worker … Continue reading →

“I’m takin’ little white pills and my eyes are open wide.”  Remember that?  “Six Days on the Road,” composed in 1963.  An anthem celebrating the great American truck driver, knight of the road, proud and free, lean and mean. The … Continue reading →

This was a response to an article in the Albuquerque Journal, published as an op-ed article by the Journal in September, 2010. Something must be missing from the recent Journal column by Joline Gutierrez Kruger about a workers’ compensation claim … Continue reading →

Somewhere in an obscure corner of your workplace, you probably can find some rather ugly wall art in the form of mandatory government posters. You have have seen these posters in businesses besides your own workplace — tucked away in … Continue reading →

The New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled a few weeks ago that a certain state employee is entitled to sue the state in district court instead of being restricted to workers’ compensation. A friend e-mailed:  “Seems like it unravels the … Continue reading →

The medical cost of prescription opioid abuse in the United States is estimated to be more than $300 billion a year.  That’s billion with a “b.” This statistic, which almost knocked me out of my chair, was presented recently at … Continue reading →