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. …
The California State Auditor is taking the Division of Workers’ Compensation to task for what it calls its failed oversight of California’s qualified medical evaluator (QME) system. The report faults …
The California State Auditor is being ordered to audit the Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Workers’ Compensation’s alleged mishandling of the qualified medical evaluator program. It has also been …
Applied Underwriters, a Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) subsidiary, is again petitioning the California Supreme Court in one of its many pieces of litigation with former insured’s of its Applied Underwriters’ …
The California Department of Insurance handed down another set of decisions – this time a trio of cases – holding that Applied Underwriters’ unfiled and unapproved reinsurance participation agreement (RPA) …
Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones issued two major decisions – both precedential – in disputes between large deductible policyholders and Travelers (NYSE: TRV). Like in Applied Underwriters’ case, the decisions void …
The Division of Workers’ Compensation says it will begin forming stakeholder groups to work on rewriting the state’s medical-legal fee schedule (MLFS) and the rules surrounding the delivery and review …
California’s move to introduce new collateral requirements for workers’ comp policies with deductible amounts of $100,000 or more generated little written comment from the industry. At CDIs recent hearing no …