Quote of the day
"It's non-sensical that [the audits] all do the same thing but they do it differently."
A workers' comp defense attorney regarding the controversial utilization review enforcement regulations proposed by California's Department of Workers' Compensation.
Controversy Surrounds Proposed UR Enforcement Regs
Payors are shaking their heads over DWCs latest proposed utilization review enforcement regulations. Find out what the problems are, what regs the applicants’ attorneys inspired, and what the governor did to hurt the process. Find out, too, what may result if they’re not fixed. Read all about it in the current print edition of Workers’ Comp Executive.
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CAAA Indignant over DWC Audit Standards
The California Applicants’ Attorneys Association doesn’t think insurers, third-party administrators and self-insured employers are penalized enough under DWC’s audit standards. The 2005 audit report shows the majority of workers’ comp claims-adjusting locations doing well, which apparently is more than CAAA can bear. Find out what it wants to do about it and which carriers aced the 2005 audit, all in the current print edition of Workers’ Comp Executive.
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Small Employers Find Back-to-Work Rules Tough Going
The return-to-work grant program finally is funded, but are small employers likely to take advantage of it? Find out what some of the obstacles might be, in the current print edition of Workers’ Comp Executive.
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L.A. Metro Transit Shoots for a Perfect Score
After flunking all three phases of the California Division of Workers’ Compensation audit in 2005, self-insured Los Angeles Metro has something to prove. Find out what risk management is doing to turn its “F” into an “A.” Read about the process in the current print edition of Workers’ Comp Executive.
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Claims Locations 2005 Audit Results
California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation ranks its audit subjects from 2005. Check out this chart and find out who was naughty and nice in the current edition of Workers’ Comp Executive.
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PUBLIUS XLVIX: You’re Fired
Has Publius gone soft or become some kind of liberal? Find out why we’d say such a thing as Publius, in his customary form, deals with back-to-work issues. Read it here for free.
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Department Opposes Demurrer
The California Department of Insurance opposes four Fremont Indemnity officers’ effort to have the Department’s lawsuit against them tossed. Find out why the Department says the defendants’ argument is full of holes, in the current print edition of Workers’ Comp Executive.
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Headway on Legislative Agenda
It’s only talking legislation at this point, but workers’ comp bills already have been introduced, and all the special interests are discussing other possibilities. Find out what’s brewing besides hot toddies in the current print edition of Workers’ Comp Executive.
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New Faces for January
The legislative leadership is still hedging on committee assignments, but Workers’ Comp Executive has learned who the chairs of committees with workers’ comp oversight are. Find out who they are and what the industry thinks, all in the current print edition of Workers’ Comp Executive.
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2006 National Workers’ Compensation Premium Rate Rankings
The Oregon Consumer and Business Services Department does its biennial national ranking of workers’ comp rates. Find out where California stands in the current print edition of Workers’ Comp Executive.
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State Fund Breaks Ground on Vacaville Digs
State Compensation Insurance Fund begins construction on the first phase of its 32-acre office campus in Vacaville, which will eventually employ about 1,200 people at the Vaca Valley Business Park facility. The campus is expected to be completed in 2011. By Kelly Johnson, Sacramento Business Journal
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EIG Opens Phoenix Office
Reno-based EIG Mutual Holding Co., through Employers Compensation Insurance Co., is opening a Phoenix office that will provide independent insurance agents tools to offer workers’ compensation coverage to small businesses. The company launched a $288 million initial public offering earlier this month that would convert the company from mutual insurance holding company to a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. By Cathy Luebke, usiness Journal of Phoenix
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Weekly Benefits to Rise in Keystone State
In Pennsylvania, where the state economy is experiencing record-high job growth and unemployment rates are at a six-year low, workers’ compensation benefits will go up next year from a maximum of $745 per week to $779 per week for workers injured on or after Jan. 1. Philadelphia Business Journal
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