Unfinished Rating Schedule, Rising Costs Greet New DWC Head

By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefA former applicants' attorney will take the helm of the California Division of Workers' Compensation as system costs are rising and insurer profitably is down, and injured workers are pushing for a long-awaited update to the Permanent Disability Rating Schedule.Gov. Jerry Brown announced Monday that he is appointing Rosa Moran of Oakland, currently a workers' compensation judge, to serve as administrative director of the DWC. Moran served as a workers' compensation judge in Oakland since 2005, and was an attorney in private practice from 1988 ...