Dying On The Job in Boston
We lost two firefighters in Boston, yesterday. A 9-alarm fire on Beacon Street in Boston’s Back Bay, aided by 45 to 50 mile per hour winds off the Charles River, took the lives of Lt. Edward J. Walsh...
View ArticleWhere’s Aristotle When ABC Needs Him?
This morning, ABC’s Good Morning America shone its media arclight on Cathy Caswell as she spun the great big wheel on The Price is Right, not once, but twice. But while doing so Ms. Caswell was drawing...
View ArticleWork Comp Fraud Control, Barn Door Style
A recent edition of 20/20 – Who’s Freeloading – deals with insurance. The first 12 or 13 minutes focuses on flagrant workers comp fraudsters caught in the act. The episode shows a worker with an...
View ArticleEmployee Misclassification: The Beat Goes On And On And On And…
Bill Clinton used to say that (fill in the blank) would last “until the last dog dies.” Well, friends, today’s topic is all about a dog that won’t die, absolutely refuses to die, will outlive us all,...
View ArticleWorkers’ Comp Fraud: The Drobot Case Grinds On
In late February, 2014, we wrote about the sordid tale of corruption perpetrated in southern California by Michael Drobot and his gang of thieves. Honor Sold, Trust Betrayed: Unbridled Greed In...
View ArticleKudos And Thanks To Work Comp Central’s Greg Jones
Work Comp Central’s Greg Jones has relentlessly followed and reported on the Michael Drobot case in Southern California, a case that fairly oozes greed and sleaze. For the uninitiated, Michael Drobot’s...
View ArticleReport: Immigrant worker exploitation in the building trades
The issue of immigrant deportation is front and center in this year’s impending election. There’s a lot of anger and invective aimed at immigrant workers, today, both those who are legal and illegal....
View ArticleThe Iceman Cometh
This will be hard. For a moment, squeeze yourself into the tight shoes of one of America’s 11 million unauthorized immigrants. Eight million of you are working. You make up 5% of the civilian...
View ArticleRick Scott Is Going To Rescue America!
Rick Scott is the junior U.S. Senator from Florida. Elected in 2018, Scott has now served in Congress for 39 months. In November, 2020, his Senate GOP colleagues elected him Chairman of the National...
View ArticleThe Biggest Grifter In History?
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” – Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel laureate. “There’s a sucker born every minute.” – P. T. Barnum (maybe)....
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