Hello dear readers!

Your humble blogger strives to bring you some of the significant happenings and doings going on in the little world of workers’ compensation.  With that goal in mind, let me ask you in my most seductive typing voice: “Hey there, good lookin’ – what are you up to this Friday?”

Whatever it is, cancel it.  Work? Call in sick.  Wedding? Object to traditional ceremonies.  Bar Mitzvah? Adopt a sudden and very temporary disregard for the traditional passage into manhood.

The California Self-Insurers Association is putting on its Northern California conference this Friday (September 20, 2013).  If you have not attended in the past, it is a worthwhile gem and well worth your day.  The speakers are great, the content is informative, and you get a chance to talk to some of the very active self-insured employers in the business.

Phil Millhollon, CSIA Executive Director, plans to use this conference as ac all to employers to become more active in tackling the troublesome trends wearing away at the defense community.  Instead of building walls and withstanding the siege, Mr. Millhollon hopes that conferences like these will encourage self-insured employers, large and small, to work together to mobilize the legislature and the judicial trends.

“So many employers are becoming hermits and not reaching out to other employers and employer groups to become educated on trending topics in workers’ compensation,” says Phil.

So, dear readers, if you’re not going already, I suggest you give it some serious thought.