California’s workers’ comp actuaries are recommending against using the industry’s second-quarter experience in the rate-making process for 2021 advisory pure premium rates due to the gross distortions in the data …
The father, daughter team behind a Merced farm labor contractor – Agriculture Services Inc. –are due back in court next month to face five felony counts for allegedly defrauding State …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Actuarial Committee just approved amending its filing for 2021. The per-class COVID-19 surcharge that it is recommending to be added to pure premium rates …
A new nationwide study looking into workers’ comp claims that have incurred losses of $3 million or more finds that such “mega claims” are becoming more prevalent and more expensive …
There are three pending creating a workers’ comp presumption concerning COVID-19 being automatically work-related for certain employees. The bills are newly amended and awaiting review by both Houses. However, work …
Three bills proposing to create presumptions that cases of COVID-19 are a compensable consequence of work cleared key policy committees. However, there are still major, unresolved issues, such as the …
There were nearly 1,100 accepted COVID-19 workers’ comp claims for state employees as of the beginning of August. The Department of Corrections accounted for two-thirds of the cases. Claims by …