State's Audit Results Identify Leading Options for Businesses, Agents and Risk Managers

When the State of California issued its 30th annual Workers’ Compensation Profile Audit Review (PAR) exam on insurance companies, third-party administrators (TPAs) and self-insured employers, they continued to raise the bar on claims handling performance. Workers’ compensation providers are now being held to an increasingly higher required passing score than in past years. The PAR audit process results in the state reporting a single exam score, released to the insurance industry, state businesses and the public, annually. The PAR score serves as an indicator of how well cla...