Despite increasing payrolls, early estimates of the 2019 California workers’ comp market are indicating another drop in written premium to about $15.7 billion total for the year. The $1.3 billion …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau will be filing to increase the wage threshold that separates over a dozen construction classifications into high and low wage groupings with vastly different …
California’s workers’ comp results are still showing the positive impact of the Baker SB 863 reforms, but the industry’s emerging 2018 data reveals a puzzling uptick in indemnity severity. That …
California employers used to workers’ comp rates being updated every January 1st and sometimes (nearly every) July 1st will soon have to adjust to a new schedule. The Workers’ Compensation …
The California Department of Insurance is asking the workers’ comp community not to collect responses to two questions that are on the standard workers’ comp application – the Association for …
The designated statistical agent for California’s workers’ comp system is proposing new rules for its medical data reporting program that would crack down on workers’ comp carriers that fail to …
Presiding over his last workers’ comp rate hearing, Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones heard from employers and organized labor through their actuary. It was like a concert that the insurance industry’s …
Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones is hearing from the insurance industry that California’s 2019 pure premium rates should come down another 4.5% as part of an eighth straight workers’ comp rate …