An Easy Fix for an Interested Legislature
California’s state government is among the world’s largest economies. It is time for it to demonstrate that it can rein in unnecessary and destructive costs that burden the business engine …
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Legislative Update: Summer Recess Edition
California’s state legislators return to Sacramento in twelve days for the final four-week push to pass bills before the session ends on September 12th. Still alive are measures to expand some existing workers’ comp presumptions and create a new one for farmworkers, update the workings of the med-legal process, and reform the California Subsequent Injuries …
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Legislative Update – May 7, 2025
The Assembly Insurance Committee approved two high-profile measures: one to reform the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund and the other to create a farmworker presumption for heat illnesses (see related items on pages 1 and 4). It advanced several other bills impacting California’s workers’ comp system. The Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee advanced …
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Report to the Legislature: WCIRB Skews Statistics
California’s workers’ compensation insurance carriers saw payments for medical benefits tick up 6.8% to $4.7 billion last year, while payments for indemnity benefits climbed 5% to $4.2 billion. Growth in …
Legislative Update
The California Legislature is in the second half of its 2024 session with active bills advancing to the second house for committee review. The active workers’ comp bills include provisions to expand temporary disability and 4850 benefits, establish a heat-illness presumption for farmworkers, and order the Contractors State Licensing Board to create a process to …
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Legislature Returns – Whatever Will It do?
The California Legislature returns from summer break next week to finish work on a handful of workers’ comp bills. Employer representatives who have been part of last-minute workers’ comp reforms in the past, such as with SB 863 that came to light just days before the end of the session, say no surprise reform legislation …
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Legislative Update
The author of SB 636 made good on his word and amended out a provision that would have created a “duty of care” for physicians performing utilization review services for private employers in California. The bill still would require these physicians to be licensed in California, but new amendments would give employers a year to …
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Workers’ Comp Bills Clear Key Legislative Hurdle
A handful of workers’ comp-related bills had already passed out of their houses of origin, but the majority faced a do-or-die deadline last week to clear the Assembly and Senate fiscal committees. The pending workers’ comp bills cleared the fiscal review, while some are advancing in amended form. Moving ahead of the deadline were two …
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