Industry Insights
| Gov.'s Veto of AB 1542 Leaves Brain-injured Workers to Fend for Themselves | 10/09/2015 | ||
| By: Steve Cattolica | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Governor’s veto, while not unexpected, is frustrating and defies good public policy. His veto message stated: To the Members of the California State Assembly: I am returning Assembly Bill 1542 without my signature. This bill requires the Division of Worker's Compensation...Read More | |||
| Gov. Brown Should Sign the Neuropsych Bill | 09/29/2015 | ||
| By: Devon J. Mathis | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| If you suffered a traumatic head or spinal cord injury at work, you would need to be evaluated by a neuropsychologist, not a psychologist. But as of Sept. 1, the chance of getting that evaluation became almost impossible in California. That’s because the state Division of Workers&...Read More | |||
| Guys and Dahl | 08/26/2015 | ||
| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Oral argument was held earlier this week in San Francisco at the California 1st District Court of Appeal, Division 2, in what is commonly known as the Dahl case, also known as Contra Costa County v. WCAB (Doreen Dahl), A141046. Dahl is an appeal by Contra Costa County from a Workers' ...Read More | |||
| Getting an Opinion | 06/05/2015 | ||
| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The $120 million “Return to Work” fund (to compensate workers whose permanent disability payments were disproportionately low in relation to their wage losses) was enacted in 2012 but not designed and instituted by the California Division of Workers' Compensation until 2015. ...Read More | |||
| Getting Executives off the Dime | 09/09/2014 | ||
| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Similar employers, and also similar operating units in large employers, have huge variations in work injury experience. Were insurers to report on these variances, showing in detail where an insured employer stood, many employers would likely hasten to improve their practices. Cost information wh...Read More | |||
| Guzman Ratings Not just for Complex and Extraordinary Cases | 01/07/2014 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Hello, dear readers!Welcome to the first full week of 2014. Vacationers are returning to clog up our commute, our coworkers are filling the cubicles next to ours, and, in the most merciful of small mercies, all the kids are returning to school.So, what better way to start off...Read More | |||
| Gotcha!: UR, IMR and LC 4062.2 Traps | 12/04/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| From the perspective of a claims examiner handling Workers' Compensation cases for a major carrier in the 1970s, the business of handling claims then seemed a much simpler and easier undertaking than it is today. Back then, if at any time we thought treatment was getting out of hand or we did no...Read More | |||
| Guaranty Fund's Indemnity Payments Not Limited By Statutory Cap | 11/08/2013 | ||
| By: Kirk Jenkins | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| In Illinois (as in every other state), when an insurance company becomes insolvent and an order of liquidation is entered, the Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund steps in and pays claims that the insolvent carrier could not pay. The Fund’s liability is capped at $300,000, but that cap isn&r...Read More | |||
| Grumbling at the WCIRB | 09/12/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| This was a week when we heard some grumbling and rumbling at the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau.Comp was reformed in 2013. Rates should stay flat or go down, right?Well.....It may not actually work that way.We'll know more soon, ...Read More | |||
| Got Liens? Managing the Lien Crisis after SB 863 | 08/15/2013 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| With all of the lien claimants crawling out of the woodwork and the sheer number of lien conferences being set, it helps to be prepared! Senate Bill 863 imposed a lien-filing fee and statute of limitations, which was intended to significantly reduce the number of liens filed. However, in anticipatio...Read More | |||
