The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau hopes to have emergency regulations ready for Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara in a matter of weeks to outline how the industry will handle COVID-19 …
California’s Legislature will have an abbreviated session to conduct the people’s business, and sources say legislators are being warned to limit their asks in light of the tightened timeframes. New …
Representatives for a group of 100 plus qualified medical evaluators and a handful of QME management companies dropped plans to go to court after the Division of Workers’ Compensation issued …
Against the backdrop of a possible wave of post-termination cumulative trauma claims, and amid growing pressure from organized labor and worker advocates for a presumption that COVID-19 infections are work-related, …
The California workers’ comp industry’s overall claims experience continued to improve through the end of 2019, according to the latest industry data. Still, concerns are rising that the economic fallout …
The group of qualified medical evaluators (QMEs) pressing the Division of Workers’ Compensation to authorize remote med-legal evaluations were less than impressed with the Department’s non-committal response to the request. …
State insurance regulators from around the nation are set to discuss and potentially adopt a new report that examines workers’ comp policy amid the nation’s evolving workforce. The discussion will …