The Hard Hat Turns 106; But its Impact on Industrial Safety Never Gets Old By Jorge Alexandria - August 31, 2025 Loss Control Corner: Since the dawn of time, humans have found ways to protect themselves- whether for survival, play, work, or war. On the latter, helmets were a crucial part of warfare for thousands of years. However, it wasn’t until WWI when a doughboy with the U.S. Cavalry, Lt. Edward Wheatley Bullard, climbed out of a French trench with an idea that would spark an industrial safety movement: the hard hat. Read More

Why do so many injury lawyer billboards dot our landscape? By Jorge Alexandria - May 4, 2025 I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley (really, it’s southern edge), 3 minutes to El Monte and 14 to Monterey Park. Then it was predominantly populated by Latino immigrants but was fast being replaced by upwardly mobile Chinese Americans. What caught my eye, even then, was the proliferation of billboard ads, most in Chinese, for personal injury attorneys. Scott Warmuth, an applicant workers’ compensation attorney, and today a friend of mine, was one of the first to post Chinese billboards in the area forty years ago. This simple investment, and it was reasonably priced then, catapulted his firm into the stratosphere and gave Jacoby & Meyers a run for their money. What this visual punch conveyed was that everyone should know who their local injury lawyer should be if the need arose. The community identified with him and that is all Scott ever wanted- renown that is unusual for a work comp attorney and name recognition to build a legal brand. Read More

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