In a previous story, Workers’ Comp Executive reported about a company, GT’s Living Foods (GTLF), a kombucha bottling company, which filed an appeal with the CDI to challenge the calculation of its 850 X-Mod for 2022 and its 999+ X-Mod for 2023. The company admits the X-Mods were inflated because it hadn’t reported over $100 …
The surge in cumulative trauma claims in California’s workers’ comp system is having a ripple effect across the claims environment. Members of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s actuarial committee …
Reports by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau and the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute both show that workers’ comp medical costs in California overall are growing faster than inflation. This …
A startup company focused on converting plastic waste into construction materials withdrew the appeal it filed with the California Department of Insurance’s Administrative Hearing Bureau after a disputed classification assignment …
New industry research shows that one out of every six workers’ comp claims filed in California in 2025 was for a cumulative trauma injury. The trend is clear compared with 2018, when the rate was one out of every 11 claims. An analysis by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute notes that the trend is accelerating …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Classification and Rating Committee (C&R) is backing a classification change that would combine retail and wholesale operations that sell computers with retail and wholesale cell phone stores into a single class. The proposed changes would also move any outside sales operations in class 8062 to 8742, which is the …
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved 6.6% average increase in California’s advisory pure premium rates effective with new or renewal business on or after September 1st. But tens of thousands of employers will see rate increases far above that, some over 30%. Brokers should prepare clients in nearly three-dozen classes that have increases in advisory pure …
California employers, on average, saw a 6% rate hike in the first quarter of the year after the Insurance Commission approved an 8.7% increase in advisory pure premium rates effective last September 1st. Advisory rates are set to go up another 6.6% at the beginning of September, although many individual classes are increasing over 20%. …