XCV SCIF Adrift
There is little sympathy for the insurance industry these days. From Wall Street to Pennsylvania Avenue to Sacramento, insurers have been targets of public disapproval. California workers’ comp insurers are …
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XCII Bad News Travels Faster
Over the past several years, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB) has been the subject of withering criticism from the insurance commissioner and various “independent” researchers. But …
Letters to the Editor (7)
A recent column by Publius on the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board en banc decisions in Almaraz/Guzman and Ogilvie— LXXXIX. Zeroing Out — drew a number of responses from readers, including the following. Comments do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Workers’ Comp Executive. Readers interested in this and other topics in Workers’ Comp Executivecan comment to feedback@wcexec.com. …
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LXXXIX Zeroing Out
Consequences of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board’s decisions in Almaraz v. Environmental Recovery Services (State Compensation Insurance Fund) and Guzman v. Milpitas Unified School District continue to reverberate through the workers’ …
LXXXVIII The Twilight Zone
It would appear that once a decade the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board takes it upon itself to throw the workers’ comp system into a freefall panic. In 1996, this phenomenon …
LXXXVI A Modest Proposal
2009 will not be the “year of reform” – whether in California workers’ comp or anything else. Unless and until the Legislature gets its fiscal house in order, a more …
LXXXV Passing the Baton
Over the past several years, we have used this page to chronicle the successes and failures of California’s workers’ comp system since the historic enactment of SB 899 in 2004. …
LXXXIV It Takes an Intersection
By all measurements, 2009 is going to be a very difficult year. Unemployment is up, consumers and investors are anxious, various sectors of the economy are teetering on collapse, and …