Bills on UR, WCIS Reporting, QMEs Move Forward in Legislature

Bills in the California Legislature that would extend salary-continuation benefits for police and firefighters recovering from catastrophic injuries, and reinstate the qualified medical evaluator designation for neuropsychologists, were unanimously passed out of committee, along with three other workers' comp measures. At the same time, the head of the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee amended a bill he introduced to propose higher penalties for claims administrators who fail to submit claim data to the Workers’ Compensation Information System, create a three-day ...