LXIII To PD Or Not PD

The level of permanent disability (PD) benefits is once again the talk of Sacramento. Though benefits significantly increased in 2002 with the passage of AB 749 (Calderon), the permanent disability … Read More »

News Digest 10/9/2007

Gilroy Faces Spiraling Benefits Costs In Gilroy, the cost of covering city employees’ benefits has risen 72 percent over the past six years, outpacing the city’s total budget expenditures more … Read More »

News Digest 9/17/2007

Injured Illegal Worker May Return to U.S. to Seek Benefits The Mexican Consulate in Boston is attempting to acquire a humanitarian visa for an illegal worker, who was deported after … Read More »

Temporary Disability Bill Makes Headway

SACRAMENTO – It’s let’s make a deal time in Sacramento and Joe Coto’s (D-San Jose) Assembly Bill 338 is at the receiving end of some substantial – and likely effective – amendments that both Republicans and Democrats agree might make for the best answer to California’s workers’ compensation temporary disability debate. The bill was ammended … Read More »

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News Digest 8/24/2007

California High Court Awards Benefits to Injured Deputy A lengthy legal battle between Stanislaus County and a former sheriff’s deputy has come to a close, as the California Supreme Court … Read More »

Dems Push PD As Interest Shifts From Workers’ Comp

California’s injured-workers lobby might be left by the wayside this session, the victim of much greater attention to health care reform and a late budget, still A.W.O.L. as of Monday. No slam dunk either is health care reform, an issue so controversial it will require massive cooperation to hammer out a package. And once the … Read More »

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LIV Keep It Simple, S—–

That strange odor you may smell from the general direction of Sacramento is a deal cooking on increasing permanent disability benefits. Consistent with the way workers’ compensation issues have been … Read More »

News Digest 3/12/2007

CRM Holdings Announces Fourth-Quarter Profit Jump Bermuda-based workers’ compensation benefits manager CRM Holdings Ltd., which does business in New York, Texas and increasingly in California, announces that its fourth-quarter 2006 … Read More »