White Paper: Carve-Outs Growing in Popularity, Show Promise for Reduced Litigation

With carve-out programs on the rise in California, a report by a carve-out administrator aims to show that alternative dispute resolution lowers litigation rates along with the delays in care and inflation of costs they entail. Elite Force Management, a Westlake Village company that creates carve-out programs, released a white paper last week that showed low litigation rates when claims were involved in alternative dispute resolution. According to data from the Division of Industrial Relations and the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation, 1.4% of claims in carve-out...