Workers' Compensation Practice by Douglas R. Mah

Workers’ Compensation and Older Workers

After rising sharply in the 1980s, workers’ compensation costs and benefits declined during the 1990s. The recent decline may reflect, in part, a decline in the availability and adequacy of these benefits. Workers in the second half of their work lives are particularly likely to be affected by these changes. Although workers’ compensation continues to compensate workers for acute short-term inj...

I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the “strange loop”—a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. The most central and complex symbol in your brain is the one called “I.” The “I” is the ne...

CS 157 : Assignment 2 Douglas R . Lanman

The union-find data structure, utilizing the “union-by-rank” and “path compression” heuristics, is one of the most efficient disjoint-set data structures known [1]. In general, union-find can be applied to any problem in which one must determine membership within a set. For instance, in class we studied its application within Kruskal’s algorithm, where it was used to efficiently detect connecte...

The battle over workers' compensation.

Faced with lower profits and rapidly increasing premium costs in the 1980s, insurers and employer organizations cleverly parlayed the public perception of worker fraud and abuse in the workers' compensation system (that they helped to create) into massive legislative changes. Over the last decade, state legislators and governors, Republican and Democrat alike, have jumped on this bandwagon, one...

Current trends in workers' compensation.