Industry Insights
| CAAA: New Comp Laws Take Effect in 2026 | 12/31/2025 | ||
| By: CAAA Communcations Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| California’s workers’ compensation landscape will see several important statutory changes beginning Thursday. Legislation enacted this year expanded protections for public safety workers, closed long-standing benefit gaps, addressed procedural issues within the system, and mor...Read More | |||
| CAAA: AI Raises Concerns in Workers' Comp System | 09/17/2025 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| The rise of artificial intelligence in the legal field is beginning to make waves in California’s workers’ compensation system. As with other areas of law, the use of AI can be helpful in assisting with streamlining tasks like grammar, drafting summaries or reviewing leng...Read More | |||
| CAAA: State Extends Safety Protections to Domestic Service Workers | 08/20/2025 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| California is extending workplace safety and health protections to domestic workers (housecleaners, caregivers, gardeners, etc.) employed by businesses for the first time. The landmark expansion of these protections was enacted through Senate Bill 1350, which was signed into law in 2...Read More | |||
| CAAA: DWC Fumbles UR Rulemaking | 08/12/2025 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| The Division of Workers’ Compensation’s latest attempt to revise utilization review rules has been rejected by the Office of Administrative Law after it found several sections were too ambiguous and littered with procedural errors. The proposed rules were meant to impleme...Read More | |||
| CAAA: Workers Can't Wait for Heat Protection | 08/06/2025 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: NA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Judy Chu have introduced the Asunción Valdivia Heat Illness, Injury and Fatality Prevention Act, a federal bill requiring the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to implement enforceable national standards to protect workers from exc...Read More | |||
| CAAA: Audit Exposes Deep Failures at Cal/OSHA | 07/30/2025 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| A scathing new audit of Cal/OSHA has found that critical understaffing and systemic failures are jeopardizing worker protections across the state. Assembly Labor Committee Chair Liz Ortega, D-San Leandro, requested the audit after repeated reports of diminished enforcement and delaye...Read More | |||
| CAAA: Fireworks Warehouse Blast Exposes Flaws in Safety, Oversight, Accountability | 07/16/2025 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Four days after a massive explosion engulfed an Esparto fireworks storage facility operated by Devastating Pyrotechnics, rescue workers finally began sifting through the rubble in search of seven workers missing since the blast. The fiery disaster that ignited a 78-acre blaze and left beh...Read More | |||
| CAAA: Left in the Smoke | 05/28/2025 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| A new study from the University of California, Davis, is raising urgent questions about whether California’s current air quality standards adequately protect the state’s farmworkers from w...Read More | |||
| CAAA: Fraud in the Workers' Comp System | 04/23/2025 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Two recent criminal cases out of Southern California spotlight the ongoing problem of employer workers’ compensation premium fraud and the harm it causes to both injured workers and law-abiding businesses. In San Diego County, the owner of GPS Plumbing pleaded guilty to underreporti...Read More | |||
| CAAA: The Dismantling of NIOSH | 04/16/2025 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a small but critical federal agency entrusted with protecting worker health and safety, is facing disastrous layoffs due to sweeping federal staffing cuts. Up to 1,000 employees are being laid off from the agency, including its di...Read More | |||
