News Digest 9/5/2007

New Florida Law Seeks to Include Cancer in Workers’ Comp Taxpayers are increasingly footing the bill for workers’ compensation for firefighters, paramedics, law enforcement and corrections officers, as more states … Read More »

News Digest 5/16/2007

Prosecutors Charge Modesto Chiropractors with Controversial Treatment Four Modesto chiropractors broke the law when they performed manipulations under anesthesia, even though the cost is sometimes covered by workers’ compensation, San … Read More »

LVI The “A” Team

On April 9, almost three years to the day Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed SB 899 into law, two new employer representatives were appointed by the governor to California’s Commission on … Read More »

OAL Agrees To Hear IBA West Petition On Underground Regulation

The Office of Administrative Law will hear a petition brought by IBA West against the Department of Insurance, which the brokers’ and agents’ group accuses of trying to make an “underground regulation” by designating a recent settlement as precedent. In other words circumstances in a case that an insurer decided to settle with the department … Read More »

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News Digest 10/27/2006

Commentary: Workers’ Comp ‘Barely an Issue’ in Race for Governor Two years after the bipartisan legislation became law, workers’ compensation is barely an issue during the current gubernatorial campaign. That’s … Read More »