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Workers’ Comp Bills

California legislators submitted proposed legislation up to the deadline for introducing bills for the first year of this two-year session. Among the final workers’ comp bills introduced for the year are proposals affecting the state’s legal cannabis industry, expanding financial disclosure requirements, improving contract transparency and cracking down on uninsured employers. Additional “spot bills” are … Read More »

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Workers’ Comp Zombie Bills Reanimated

Legislators introduced a pair of bills that revive ideas that had been killed off in past sessions. One bill brings back a proposal for a state-run medical provider network (MPN), while the other revives a heat illness presumption for privately employed farmworkers that was vetoed last year. Assemblyman Esmeralda Soria (D-Merced) is carrying AB 1498 … Read More »

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Easing Broker Licensing Requirements

Assemblyman Michelle Rodriguez (D-Ontario) is carrying a bill to eliminate the requirement that applicants for a broker’s license must have undergone 20 hours of pre-licensing. The 20-hour requirement currently applies to each line of insurance for which a license is sought. The bill would leave intact the requirement that applicants complete 12 hours of study … Read More »

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Assembly Insurance Committee Lineup Released

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) completed the committee assignments for the new session. He brought back Assemblyman Lisa Calderon (D-Whittier) to chair the Assembly Insurance Committee, which Calderon has led for the past two years. Assembly Insurance is the primary committee in the lower house that has jurisdiction over bills impacting the state’s workers’ comp … Read More »

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Governor Vetoes Controversial Workers’ Comp Bills

Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected a proposal to give the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board a role in overseeing employers’ compliance with California’s workplace health and safety laws. The Governor also rejected measures to boost salaries for California Department of Insurance investigators, another to expand 4850 leave to more public employees, and proposed changes to the California … Read More »

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New Laws For 2025

California employers and insurance companies face new laws impacting the state’s workers’ comp system operations in 2025 and beyond. Some bills were signed earlier in the session, but the fate of others wasn’t decided until the final days of the session. The most troublesome measures fell to Governor Gavin Newsom’s veto pen (see related story). … Read More »

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Governor Slow To Review Workers’ Comp Bills

Governor Gavin Newsom is slowly working through the hundreds of bills the California Legislature sent to his desk this year. The bills include controversial measures to create a new private sector workers’ comp presumption for farmworkers who succumb to heat-related injuries and another to require all private sector utilization review decisions to go through California-licensed … Read More »

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Legislative Update – Aug 2024

The California Legislature has just ten days to wrap up work on numerous workers’ comp bills that are still pending this session. Heading into the final stretch legislators are continuing to push measures that would create a private sector workers’ comp presumption for farmworkers, make it a crime to deny time off to seek treatment … Read More »

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