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Industry Has Lots To Say About Utilization Review Regulations

The Division of Workers’ Compensation’s proposal to update California’s utilization review regulations, toughen penalties for bad actors, and introduce a new PR-1 physician reporting form generated responses from over a dozen industry representatives. Much of the feedback was about the new PR-1 form, which would combine two existing forms into one new form, which many … Read More »

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Assembly Appropriations Hears Workers’ Comp Bills

The California Legislature is heading into the final weeks of the session with a handful of workers’ comp bills still pending before the August 31st deadline for passage. Hearings resume later this morning on workers’ comp bills, including one to address a proposed presumption for private sector employees and another to make it a crime … Read More »

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New Notice Requirements for Employees

A new law requires employers to notify employees of their right to attorney representation if they are injured on the job. Employers must add this to the employee notifications that are already required. The bill also requires the notifications to explain how attorney fees are paid in the workers’ comp system. Governor Gavin Newsom signed … Read More »

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Assembly Nixes Proposed WCAB Fix

The Legislature’s response to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May Revise would restore funding to some programs slated for cuts, including programs overseen by the Department of Industrial Relations, but it rejects a budget trailer bill to give the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board some breathing room. The proposal passed by the Assembly Budget Committee maintains funding for … Read More »

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Legislative Update

The California Legislature is in the second half of its 2024 session with active bills advancing to the second house for committee review. The active workers’ comp bills include provisions to expand temporary disability and 4850 benefits, establish a heat-illness presumption for farmworkers, and order the Contractors State Licensing Board to create a process to … Read More »

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Suspense Bills Advance

The Senate and Assembly Appropriation committees reviewed over a thousand bills last week in an up-or-down vote. Five workers’ comp bills on the suspense file were approved, albeit with amendments to a couple. A private sector presumption for heat-related illnesses among farmworkers is still in play. SB 1299 by Sen. Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley) cleared … Read More »

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Construction Industry Bills Advance

The Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee passed two bills targeting contractors and the Contractors State Licensing Board. The measures would extend the sunset date for the CSLB as a state entity and would give contractors who do not have employees two more years before they must obtain workers’ comp insurance. The bills would … Read More »

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Legislative Affairs

California legislators faced an early hurdle to keep their 2024 bills alive and viable. Legislative rules required fiscal bills to clear the policy committees in their house of origin by last Friday. Nonfiscal bills have until this Friday to reach the floor of their house of origin. Which workers’ comp bills made it? Here is … Read More »

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