Industry Insights
| CAAA: Left in the Smoke | 05/28/2025 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| A new study from the University of California, Davis, is raising urgent questions about whether California’s current air quality standards adequately protect the state’s farmworkers from w...Read More | |||
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Gelman: Intentional Wrong? | 05/27/2025 | |
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| By: Jon L. Gelman | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| Employers' liability insurance policies generally exclude coverage for intentional wrongs committed against employees, even if those employees also pursue workers' compensation claims. ...Read More | |||
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Wroten: State's Workers' Comp Crisis a Stark Contrast to National Stability | 05/23/2025 | |
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| By: Jon Wroten | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A recent article in WorkCompCentral, titled “Comp Is a Cash Cow, but Insurers Want Higher Rates,” suggests that California's workers' compensation system is t...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: Comp Is a Cash Cow, but Insurers Want Higher Rates | 05/21/2025 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau voted to ask California’s Insurance Commissioner to increase workers’ comp insurance rates by 11.2%. ...Read More | |||
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Snyder: Credible Negotiation | 05/19/2025 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Let's say you’ve decided to initiate settlement negotiations even though the other side hasn’t shown any interest at this point. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: The State of Work Comp | 05/16/2025 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| The National Council on Compensation Insurance's 2025 "State of the Line" report says: ...Read More | |||
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Snyder: Two Opposing Views on Litigation Management | 05/14/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| For decades, I have encouraged parties to evaluate early and often with a view to closing cases to minimize the expenditure of time, money and stress. I was recently surprised by the published contrary view of a litigation management expert. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: City Pays Doctor $32 to Treat Injured Employee | 05/12/2025 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Across the nation, providers struggle to treat injured workers without financially damaging their practices. The problem is especially ugly in California, where extreme reimbursement discounting is rampant. ...Read More | |||
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Gelman: Medical Reports Matter | 05/09/2025 | |
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| By: Jon L. Gelman | |||
| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| The U.S. District Court recently vacated and remanded a decision by the commissioner of Social Security, emphasizing the critical importance of considering all relevant medical evidence, particularly reports generated within the context of a workers' compensation claim. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: Rand Gets $300K for UR Study. What's the ROI? | 05/05/2025 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| The California Department of Industrial Relations plans to address the state’s broken utilization review system by paying frequent contract recipient Rand Corp. $300,000 to study UR data on injured workers’ access to care during the first 30 days of a claim....Read More | |||
