Every year the first Workers’ Comp Executive issue of the year includes a list highlighting the biggest stories of the year. California’s workers’ comp industry faced a number of issues in 2016 – some good, positive developments for employers and injured workers alike and others that cast the industry in a negative light. Some years, …
by Dale Debber, Publisher NOTE: It is a rule of journalism that one doesn’t write news stories about events when one is directly involved. This is not a news story …
State Compensation Insurance Fund is about to file a 6.5% rate increase for January 2014 and there’s even more coming in March. Remember its 2013 rate filing cut rates by 7% and they said the cuts were in anticipation of the cost savings from SB 863 reforms. The carrier is now preparing to claw back …
Workers’ Comp Executive and its sister publication Cal-OSHA Reporter bagged five Excellence in Journalism Awards including best investigative from the Virginia-based Specialized Information Publishers Association. Workers’ Comp Executive scored big for its coverage of State Compensation Insurance Fund and Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. Cal-OSHA Reporter also hit a homerun with its coverage of health and …
Workers’ Comp Executive endorses and encourages the Senate to confirm the appointment of Christine Baker as director of the Department of Industrial Relations. Rarely have we seen as effective a leader who can both get things done and work proactively and collaboratively with labor, worker organizations, employers and employer organizations and other government agencies. Ms. …
State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) has officially cancelled the layoff plan it announced last fall, State Fund officials confirm. In 2010 State Fund began a major restructuring of its operations and announced layoffs the following year. According to an email sent out by president and CEO Tom Rowe and obtained by Workers’ Comp Executive, the …
High ranking Brown administration officials confirmed to Workers’ Comp Executive that there is interest in creating a fee schedule for those firms generally known as “copy services” which provide services to both applicant attorneys and defense counsel by serving subpoenas and going to record locations to make photocopies and deliver those copies generally on paper …
Accident Fund Holdings Inc., parent company of California workers’ comp carrier Compwest Insurance Company, is embarking on a new program to rein in overuse of Schedule II narcotics, or opioids as they’re called. But rather than dictate prescribing practices of physicians or simply saying “no,” as other carriers have, Accident Fund focuses on working with …