CWCI Study Questions Efficacy of Narrowing Window for Liability Decisions

Legislation that supporters say would remediate delays and denials in cases involving injuries that are presumed compensable would likely have no effect on the majority of claims and could result in more denials and litigation on complex cases, according to an analysis by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute. CWCI said in a statement that its analysis of more than 475,000 claims concluded that reducing investigation timelines as proposed in Senate Bill 1127 “would create compensability determination thresholds that are unnecessary for accepted claims and unrealistic for ...