WCAB Finishes Lien Regs, Interpreters Sue

Interpreters working in California’s workers’ comp system wasted little time in filing a lawsuit challenging new regs just adopted by the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board.  The regs, to become effective March 26th, require lien filers to submit a declaration under penalty of perjury as part of a lien filing. The interpreters don’t want to so certify … Read More »

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WCAB Closes Comments On Lien Rules

Final comments on the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board’s proposed rules for workers’ comp liens indicate that the Board still has work to do before finalizing the regulations. The new regs are intended to implement anti-fraud procedures such as requiring lien claimants (mostly doctors but including all providers) to file a declaration under penalty of perjury … Read More »

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WCAB Extends Lien Comment Period, Again

Amid a growing influx of comments drove in large part by the workers’ comp interpreting community, the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board is extending the public comment period about potential lien reforms until the end of the month. The agency previously held a public hearing and agreed at the time to prolong the comment period an … Read More »

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WCAB Extends Comment Period On Lien Rules

The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board is developing regulations to implement new lien filing rules to combat fraudulent liens and is giving the workers’ comp community extra time to comment on the proposals. The proposed rule changes include a mandate that lien filers declare under penalty of perjury that the lien is valid. The changes are … Read More »

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Supreme Court Rejects Lien Fee Challenge

The highest court in the land closed the door on on-going legal challenges to SB 863’s creation of a lien activation fee for workers’ comp liens filed before Jan. 1, 2013. The court rejected the lien holders’ petition without comment. The Department of Industrial Relations continues to bat a thousand in defense of the various … Read More »

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Top Lien Filers Include Company Under Indictment

California’s workers’ comp system is quickly developing a lien problem again as the number of liens being filed nearly doubled last year. The total edged to near pre-reform levels at just over 400,000 liens statewide. The irony is palatable in Oakland. Newly available data indicates that the high rate of filings is driven by a … Read More »

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OAL Rejects Lien Fee Challenge

The Office of Administrative Law rejected without comment a challenge to the state’s electronic workers’ comp lien payment and activation system. The California Lien Professionals Association complained earlier this year that the online payment system was adopted in violation of state regulations and argued that it should be shut down. The association launched the challenge … Read More »

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Lien Activations Bring In Millions For DWC

The Division of Workers’ Compensation’s collections for lien filing and activation fees were more than seven times higher than normal last month as thousands of lien holders scrambled to prevent their legacy lien claims from being dismissed. Overall the Division took in $26.4 million in lien filing and activation fees in December compared to a … Read More »

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