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California Workers’ Comp Combined Ratio At Highest Level Since 2011

The California workers’ comp industry projected a 2024 accident year combined ratio of 123—an increase of 10 points from the prior year and the highest annual combined ratio since before the SB 863 reforms. The year-end data from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau also shows that written premium fell last year while average charged … Read More »

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Payors Prep Amendments As SIBTF Bill Advances

The author of a bill to reform California’s Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund (SIBTF) program amended the measure before its first legislative hearing to tighten the definition of a pre-existing disability. The proposed changes are projected to reduce the number of 100% permanent total disability and cut the annual assessment by 20 to 25%. Employers … Read More »

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Farmworker Heat Illness Presumption Bill Clears Committee

A bill to create the first private sector workers’ comp presumption for heat-related illnesses suffered by farmworkers cleared its first hurdle despite opposition from the employer community. AB 1336, by Assemblyman Dawn Addis (D-San Luis Obispo), is a redo of a bill that reached Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk last year but was vetoed for being … Read More »

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Legislative Update – May 7, 2025

The Assembly Insurance Committee approved two high-profile measures: one to reform the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund and the other to create a farmworker presumption for heat illnesses (see related items on pages 1 and 4). It advanced several other bills impacting California’s workers’ comp system. The Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee advanced … Read More »

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Public Sector Presumption Returns, PD Cost-of-Living Bill

The California Nurses Association’s ongoing effort to enact a workers’ comp presumption for private industry frontline healthcare workers cleared its initial policy committee hearing with only a single vote against it. The same committee also advanced a bill to enact an annual cost of living adjustment for permanent disability benefits. Employer interests heavily oppose both … Read More »

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Committees Advance Bills

The Assembly Insurance and the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement committees held their first hearings to review bills this session and advanced measures to expand a workers’ comp cancer presumption and extend 4850 time to more public sector employees. Also advancing was a measure to reform broker licensing requirements and a rehash of a … Read More »

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Workers’ Comp Cannabis Amnesty Bill

The Assembly Insurance Committee passed AB 1209 by Assemblyman Michelle Rodriguez (D-Ontario) over the opposition of two members. The bill proposes an amnesty program for the state’s legal cannabis industry and a system for providing access to financial and insurance markets for these employers to comply. Testimony during the hearing described the industry as a … Read More »

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Amended Workers’ Comp Bills

Legislators are beginning to add more specifics to spot bills as the legislative session gets underway in earnest. One bill now includes a broad notification provision that employers will have to comply with if it becomes law, while another amended bill carves out a class of workers who would be exempt from California’s ABC test. … Read More »

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