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Court Stays Litigation Pending Outcome Of Workers’ Comp Claim

The owner and sole employee of a company cannot proceed with a lawsuit against the company’s workers’ comp carrier for breach of contract until the owner’s underlying workers’ comp claim is resolved. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court’s stay in the case alleging the carrier fraudulently denied temporary disability payments. Calvin … Read More »

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10% of Injured Workers Shortchanged

The Division of Workers’ Compensation’s 2024 audits of claims shops found that over 10% of randomly selected claims had unpaid benefits owed to injured workers. Overall, 271 workers were owed an average of $1,625 each (or a total of $440,714), but the amounts varied greatly by adjuster. Applicant’s attorneys routinely cite an injured worker’s inability … Read More »

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Workers’ Comp TTD/PTD Benefits Increase

Temporary and Permanent disability payments to California’s workers’ comp claimants will increase by 3.8% effective January 1st, 2025. That translates to employers paying a weekly maximum payout of $1,680.29 compared … Read More »

Assembly Committee Advances MPN, TD Duration Bills

Bills that would exempt some temporary disability benefits from the 104-week cap on TD benefits and another to amend the medical provider network (MPN) notification and provider listing standards easily cleared the Assembly Insurance Committee. Both measures are pending review by the Assembly Appropriations Committee this morning, as is a separate measure to create an … Read More »

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Average Weekly Wage Up Over 5%

The 2023 minimum and maximum weekly benefit rates for temporary total disability (TD) and permanent total disability (PD) are increasing by 5.159% for 2023. The weekly minimum for will be … Read More »

Convictions for Double-Dipping, Perjury Upheld

The Fourth District Court of Appeal upheld an injured worker’s convictions for multiple counts of perjury and fraud but reduced his sentence by removing a year of court-ordered probation due to recent changes in state law. The convictions stemmed from the claimant working for another employer while collecting temporary total disability benefits, and he also … Read More »

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Temporary Total Disability Benefits Increase For 2017

The state’s minimum and maximum temporary total disability (TTD) rates for workers’ comp claims are increasing effective Jan. 1, 2017. The minimum TTD rate will increase from $169.26 to $175.88, and the maximum TTD rate will increase from $1,128.43 to $1,172.57 per week, the Division of Workers’ Compensation announced. The TTD rates are increasing in … Read More »

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Workers’ Comp Costs Hidden In Minimum Wage Hike

California is on the path to raising minimum wage rates 50% to $15 per hour and experts agree that the change will have a significant impact on employers’ workers’ comp costs. The cost implications are greatest for those with large numbers of minimum wage workers, but the impact will not necessarily stop just with them. … Read More »

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