A recent Flash Report about State Compensation Insurance Fund’s executive recruiter having apparent trouble finding candidates who are both interested and qualified to run State Fund drew a number of responses from our readers. One in particular caught our attention and we would like to share it with you. This typifies and encapsulates many of …
Governor Schwarzenegger appoints a risk manager to the California Workers’ Compensation Fraud Assessment Commission. Governor Schwarzenegger has appointed Jiles Smith, a risk manager for the Riverside Transit Agency to a seat on the Workers’ Compensation Fraud Assessment Commission. He’ll take the seat vacated by Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona. Smith brings a wealth of workers’ …
Editors Note: We are re-issuing the Workers’ Comp Executive flash report that was sent out this morning because of an error in the last paragraph. We said “increase” when we should have said “decrease End of accident-year figures for 2005 show that loss ratios are at 34 percent, according to data from the Workers’ Compensation …
End of accident-year figures for 2005 show that loss ratios are at 34 percent, according to data from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. This is up a percentage point from accident year 2004, but a negligible change nonetheless. The data from insurers continue to show a resurgent, competitive, and profitable California workers’ comp market, …
In an extremely rare legal turn of events, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Donald Mitchell has granted State Compensation Insurance Fund’s motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict (JNOV) in the case of Palm Medical v. State Fund. State Fund announced the decision in a news release. In granting the JNOV, Judge Mitchell vacates the jury’s …
Senator Richard Alarcon (D-Van Nuys) told his standing-room only Senate Industrial and Labor Relations Committee that the reputation of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is being “besmirched” in California. Senator Alarcon slammed the Schwarzenegger administration for waiting two years to begin the process of putting permanent medical utilization guidelines in place that …
Medical Groups are working with the Division of Workers’ Compensation and the Legislature to eliminate the $100 lien filing fee enacted in the workers’ comp reform bill SB 228. The understanding, industry experts tell Workers’ Comp Executive, is that the provision may be eliminated as early as this summer. It illustrates a truism of workers’ …
Few lofty pronouncements were made today at the rather humdrum pure premium rate hearing usually presided over by flashy Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, who was out campaigning for Lt. Governor. The latest field polling indicates that if the primary were held today Garamendi leads by 31 percent over his opponent, Sen. Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo). …