
One of the more colorful phrases you will hear in the workers compensation claims office is the term “old dogs”. “Old dogs” is a term referring to the large, old paper files that have been around for years. There are two explanations where the term “old dogs” came from. The first explanation is: As the years went by, the corners of the paper file and some of the papers in the file got the corners bent over, the file became dog-earred. The second explanation is: the claim file is like a dog. During the early start of the claim...