News Digest 1/10/2008
Publius LXVII: Confirm or Deny Carrie Nevans, acting Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, is up for confirmation. Publius discusses that confirmation and her tenure so far. Find …
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LXVI Spreading The-Risk
When Joe Mathews wrote his book, The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy (Public Affairs, 2006), he titled his chapter on the workers’ comp reforms of …
Tragedy Fortunately Had Few Workers’ Comp Effects
As firefighters began to wind down fighting some of the worst fires California has seen, the financial and personal impact from last month’s wildfires is ongoing. Though most of the insurance ramifications will fall on personal lines and some commercial property carriers, there are workers’ comp and occupational health and safety implications. In all, some …
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LXV Right On Schedule?
Only a few months ago, or so it seemed, discussion of California’s permanent disability benefit adequacy was put on hold until a series of studies from the Division of Workers’ …
LXIV Back To Work
Permanent disability once again will be front and center in the 2008 California legislative debate over workers’ comp. The question that has lingered since the effects of the new permanent …
LX Check, Please
Publius reveals specific steps public officials can take immediately to help prevent the 10 to 23% of California payroll involved in premium fraud. Find out the numbers, who the bad …
LIX Am I Blue?
All’s quiet on the workers’ compensation front. After a series of tentative overtures on increasing disability benefits was essentially cut off by some well-timed and very public comments by Gov. …
LVIII If I Had A Hammer
The new California Utilization Review Penalty Regulations for workers’ comp are now official. We suspect that the final blessing from the Office of Administrative Law was met with a significant …