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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?

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?

What did the Ninth Circuit have to say about the trucking industry's arguments against AB 5?

What are the proposed workers' comp bills that are still under consideration, and how would they impact the system? Will employers face a new set of cost drivers if these proposals are signed into law?

A major staffing industry villain is going to jail for years. What's next on the docket for the convicted tax cheat?

How much may an employer set to collect from an illegal workers' comp program? Who is not on the hook for the settlement?

What does the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board say needs to be considered before a qualified medical evaluator is taken off a case? How does the decision impact past and future cases?

The Commission on Health, Safety, and Workers' Compensation is following a legislative mandate and is going out to bid for a study of PTSD claims. Why do the experts say there is really not much there to study?

How did an employer overcome a federal presumption that an employee’s knee troubles were a compensable consequence of work? What are the underlying facts in the case?

After a reproval, what is a state bar court ordering an attorney to do to avoid a more severe punishment? What kind of workers' comp fraud ring created the mess?

In an interesting workers' compensation case that decides when tribal sovereign immunity extends to a medical contractor hired by a tribe? Learn what are the factors that must be considered.

California Insurance Company got its day before the First District Court of Appeal. How did the justices respond to its complaints of regulatory overreach in the state's ongoing conservation and rehabilitation of the carrier?

What are the year-end results for California workers' comp carriers? What do the national numbers look like in comparison?