Praise Is Fleeting, but Brickbats We Recall

My sisters and I have often marveled that the stories we tell over and over about our childhood tend to focus on what went wrong. We talk about the time my older sister got her finger crushed by a train door on a trip to Scandinavia. We recount the time we almost...

How Startups Are Key To The Economic Recovery

Despite the promise brought by the latest round of successful IPOs and rallying public markets, the news continues to be filled with headlines around the possibility of a “false recovery.” Europe’s continent-wide recession and expanding debt issues, rising oil and...

Diversity Training Doesn’t Work

“We’ve got another lawsuit,” my friend and client Lana* told me over the phone. “Really?” I was honestly surprised. “What about all that diversity training everyone went through?” “Well, apparently we need to do it...

Workers’ comp fraud bill headed to Scott

The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a bill aimed at cracking down on workers-compensation insurance fraud that involves check-cashing businesses. The bill (HB 1277), in part, would allow the Office of Financial Regulation to examine or investigate...

Dozens Charged in Massive Insurance Scheme in NY

Federal and local authorities in New York unveiled charges today against 36 defendants — including 10 doctors and three attorneys — allegedly involved in a systematic scheme to defraud auto insurance companies of more than $275 million under New York’s no-fault...