ProPublica Highlights WC 'Middlemen' with Focus on Expo in Las Vegas

ProPublica on Monday posted another installment in its ongoing examination of state workers' compensation systems, this time focusing on a conference in Las Vegas last month to illustrate how a "cottage industry of middlemen" has emerged. The nonprofit news service featured the lighter side of the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference & Expo, held Nov. 10-13, illustrating its reporting with photos of a live alligator that was displayed during the conference, and a performance by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and an acrobat performing Cirque du ...