DWC to Use IAIABC Claims Release 3.1 Instead of 3.0

The Iowa Division of Workers’ Compensation has changed course and scrapped plans to adopt the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions’ Claims Release 3.0 and instead will implement Claims Release 3.1. Dec. 3 will be the mandatory reporting period start date for first reports of injury and subsequent reports of injury to the division via electronic data interchange, the agency says in a notice to stakeholders. All workers’ compensation carriers, claims administrators and self-injured employers should disregard the agency’s announcement s...