Insured and self-insured employers will be paying more to run the California workers’ comp system next year. The Department of Industrial Relations boosted the assessment rate for the workers’ compensation …
The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board is being ordered to take a fresh look at whether Southern Insurance Company effectively rescinded a workers’ comp policy or merely canceled it on a …
The Legislature has been out on its summer recess, but while Legislators were out of town Gov. Jerry Brown signed a pair of bills that will impact employers and the …
Injured workers whose employers fail to provide the required workers’ comp coverage would get quicker access to medical care under a proposal making its way through the legislature. The bill …
Well-respected defense attorney Saul Allweiss has received the Carrie Nevans Community Service Award for 2012 in Southern California from the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC). Allweiss has been active in …
To the relief of employers, assessment rates that pay for the programs within the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) have dropped by 28% for 2012, according to DIR. Assessments levied …
So far funding is staying ahead of benefits paid out in the Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust Fund (UEBTF), according to the latest figures from the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). …
Employers are concerned about a prevailing wage bill that would require the Department of Finance to loan $4.3 million from the Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust Fund (UEF) to fund startup …