FLASH REPORTS
Flash: SHOCKER: Bureau Votes for Huge Rate Increase
The workers’ compensation industry is making a move for a major rate hike effective for September 1, 2025, policies. How high is it and what could it have been?
Flash: Prepare For Significant Workers’ Comp Rate Hike Request
Work is underway for the next workers’ comp rate filing. How bad is the deterioration in the industry’s projected loss ratio? And how big a rate hike will the Bureau recommend?
Flash: DWC Zoom Hearing Disrupted by Hate Group
A Division of Workers’ Compensation hearing was hit with a “zoombombing” incident. What happened and how was it resolved?
ARTICLES
What Costs are Driving Workers’ Comp Rate Increase?
The Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is seeking a double-digit rate hike. What are the technical factors driving up the rates? How much does the public actuary recommend? Are the cost trends the same statewide?
MEWA Officials Sentenced
The principals behind a long-running workers' comp and pension fraud scheme were finally sentenced for their crimes. The sentencing came nearly 9 years after Workers' Comp Executive broke the story, exposed the fraud, and began its detailed investigative series about the MEWA in October of 2016. Read the entire series in our investigations section here.
New Utilization Review Draft Regulations
The Division of Workers' Compensation is circulating another round of changes to the proposed utilization review regulatory update. Get the details of what has been taken out, what's been added to the package, and how you can comment on the changes by clicking here.
Truckers’ Challenge AB 5 Before the 9th
How did a panel of justices poke and prod the trucking industry’s arguments in their AB 5 challenge? Why does the state say there are ways for the truckers to comply with the law and still have their own businesses?
Remodeling Contractor Subject to Sole and Exclusive
What are a homeowner's workers' comp obligations to a remodeling contractor? How does the length of the contract for work and the number of hours worked impact coverage?
Public Sector Presumption Returns, PD Cost-of-Living Bill
A key Senate committee advanced a handful of workers' comp bills before the Legislature's spring recess. Why do employers say a pair are unnecessary cost drivers without any expressed need for the measures?
Convicted Fraudster Petitions SCOTUS
What's behind a push to get the United States Supreme Court to take up a workers' comp fraud case? What is the alleged criminal act at the heart of the dispute?
Employer Must Face Discrimination, Retaliation Claims
Why is an appeals court reversing a summary judgment and ordering a trial in a discrimination and retaliation case? What are the workers' comp aspects of the case?
Workers’ Comp Reform May Have To Wait For Next Governor
Industry experts give their thoughts on pending legislation and the workers' comp reform outlook. What are the potential pitfalls that lay ahead?
Committees Advance Bills
What legislative proposals are moving early in the session? How would they impact employers and brokers?
$3 Million In Restitution In Two Premium Fraud Cases
Prosecutors secured victories in two long-running premium fraud cases. Who were the employers, and how were they caught?