SAN FRANCISCO—Practice may not always make perfect, but experienced doctors do count when it comes to delivering lower-cost care and a quicker return to work for injured workers. At least that’s what the preliminary data show for physicians who treat a large percentage of the state’s injured workers and practice primarily through medical providers, says …
New York Biz Groups: Labor’s Demand Hoses Employers An obscure, eleventh hour provision in New York’s workers’ compensation reform bill threatens to cut savings for employers, contend insurance and business …
Plaintiff Lawyers Blast Post-Tort Reform System in Lone Star State At a Dallas Bar Association event, lawyers pepper two Texas Supreme Court justices with questions about their impartiality in the …
Reform a ‘Disaster’ Contend Some Injured Workers Workers’ compensation patients and their advocates visit the state capitol to urge Gov. Schwarzenegger to sign Senate Bill 936, which would increase benefits …
Opinion: Workers’ Comp Reform a Model for California Health Care California’s workers’ compensation system could stand improvement in several respects, but the governor and the state legislature did well in …
Louisiana Reform Group Attacks System A group of hospital and corporate employers, Louisianans for Workers’ Compensation Reform, say they want to change how injured workers are treated via a package …
Reform Treating Some Better Than Others The disparity between workers’ compensation insurance premiums and payouts to injured workers has resulted in record profits to insurers, and the situation has drawn …
Minutes ago in a news conference California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced four major initiatives to reform the workers comp system, and ordered a 14.2% pure premium decrease. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau called only for an 11.3% decrease. The Commissioner said that carrier loss ratios are averaging 37%. As one of his reform …