First Tuesday is Near
November 8 is election day. There are very consequential and very partisan campaigns being waged throughout the United States, if the seemingly hourly reporting from outlets large and small are …
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Keep On Truckin’
On June 30 of this year, the United States Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by the California Trucking Association (CTA) in the long-running case of …
Is Data The Answer?
In the fall of 2021, RAND Corporation published a report, “Posttraumatic Stress in California’s Workers’ Compensation System”. The report was presented to the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ …
COVID: Which is the Appropriate State Entity
Earlier this week, Governor Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill 1820 (Arambula), which would have required the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) within the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) to establish …
Is the Self-Insurers’ Security Fund Hiding Something?
“It is the public policy of this state that public agencies exist to aid in the conduct of the people’s business and the proceedings of public agencies be conducted openly …
Inconsequential Year?
From a high level, it would appear that 2022 was not a consequential year for the workers’ compensation system in the California Legislature. As is annually the case, there were …
Two More Years of COVID
As the California Legislature winds down its session, we are left with two bills having as their effect the continuation of the COVID-19 state of emergency as it existed two …
Through the Uprights
It likely came as little surprise to anyone that Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara declined, again, to adopt the pure premium (“benchmark”) increase recommended by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau …