WCIRB: State Survived COVID-19 'Shock' and — Hopefully — Will Return to Comp 'Golden Age'

California’s workers’ comp infrastructure fared better than anticipated in 2020, but it's still unclear how long the COVID-19 pandemic will linger as stakeholders try to return the system to its healthy and stable pre-virus days, executives from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau said Wednesday. “The 2020s are off to a different and never-before-seen start, with a global pandemic and a historic recession,” WCIRB President and CEO Bill Mudge said during the first day of the bureau’s annual conference. “And now, the begi...