Texas Workers’ Compensation & Recoupment of Overpaid Benefits – Injured workers have the benefit

One of the hot topics in dispute resolution before the Industrial Injury Department these days is reparation. Restoration is an attempt by an insurance carrier to recover overpaid benefits from a claimant by reducing the claimant’s future benefits by a specified percentage until all overpaid benefits have been recovered. For years it was a matter … Read more

Cheap Pimsleur – 7 Ways to Save Money on the Pimsleur Language Learning Method

Pimsleur, by Dr. Developed by Paul Pimsleur and now published by Simon and Schuster, the language method is one of the most sought-after language tools for the independent language learner. It is also known to be quite expensive. If you pay the retail price for 3 levels of Pimsleur Comprehensive it would cost over $1000. … Read more

Forex Trading – What’s So Attractive About Forex Trading?

One of the attractions for potential clients is the leverage that the forex market offers. The leverages offered vary between 100:1 and 500:1 depending on the broker and thus offer investors the opportunity to make enormous profits with small deposits. With the benefits comes the risk. Even high-stakes positions can lead to margin calls when … Read more

Why was the face-to-face training rated so poorly?

In The Changing Nature of Organizations, Work, and Workplace, Judith Heerwagen of JH Heerwagen & Associates and Kevin Kelly and Kevin Kampschroer of the US General Service Administration note that work today is more: cognitively complex; team-based and cooperative; dependent on social skills; dependent on technological competence; Time pressure; mobile and less geographically dependent. Managers … Read more

NY High School Regents Exams: Do We Still Need Them?

NY High School Regents Exams began in New York State in 1876, a hundred years after our nation’s declaration of independence. As they have evolved, they continue to this day, testing NY’s high school students in most academic subjects. Students who passed their exams received Regents Certificates. That too has evolved. High school students who … Read more