The Commission on Health, Safety and Workers’ Compensation commissioners, in compliance with legislation, voted to create a bid to study post-traumatic stress disorder claims filed by 911 operators and other emergency dispatchers. The study will also review the effectiveness of the existing PTSD presumption for first responders. The study is mandated by the passage of …
The Department of Industrial Relations issued a Request for Information (RFI) to get input from the workers’ comp and research communities on how best to complete two Legislatively mandated studies of California’s existing presumption for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) claims. It is also looking at PTSD claims in several non-covered classes. The RFI gives interested …
The Assembly Insurance Committee advanced a measure to expand for state employees the workers’ comp presumption for post-traumatic stress disorders to cover nurses and psych techs working at California’s prisons and state hospitals. Meanwhile, the Senate Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee passed a similar measure that would push back the sunset date for an …
The Commission on Health, Safety, and Workers’ Compensation forwarded a study examining post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) among firefighters and peace officers to the Legislator who requested it but not before including a warning that the study may not be entirely reliable. CHSWC staff included the cover letter after several Commissioners raised concerns about the researchers’ …
By most observations, 2022 will not be a year where the California Legislature entertains “major” workers’ compensation legislation. That is a term used by people to describe a process where …
On September 30, the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation (CHSWC) held a virtual meeting. On the agenda was a presentation by RAND on its preliminary research report …
California legislators advanced one bill that would sharply curtail the amount of time employers have to investigate workers’ comp claims and passed two others that expand the state’s presumptions that certain conditions are industrially caused. However, a third presumption measure for the healthcare sector and COVID-19 failed to clear the Senate before the June 4th …
The Sixth District Court of Appeal ordered publication of a decision annulling a 100% permanent and total disability award that was based solely on a psychiatric injury stemming from the sexual abuse by a treating physician. The court remanded the case to the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board to consider permanent disability issues surrounding the underlying …