Industry Insights
| CAAA: How Allostatic Load Affects a Worker's Injuries and What Impairment May Result | 04/01/2026 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Allostatic load may sound like an abstract medical concept, but at its most basic, it describes something every applicants’ attorney has seen play out many times over. For decades, researchers have studied how the body responds to stress through a system designed for survival, what ...Read More | |||
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Chetcuti: Issues With Rader Significant Panel Decision | 03/02/2026 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | |||
| On Jan. 8, 2026, a significant panel decision was issued in Rader v. Ticketmaster Corp. and SCIF, wherein the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board found jurisdiction beyond f...Read More | |||
| CAAA: Workplace Injury Numbers Shift, but Key Risks Persist | 02/25/2026 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| California saw a 4% decline in employer-reported workplace injuries and illnesses in 2024, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, following a sharp ...Read More | |||
| CAAA: Misuse, Misrepresentation of Interpreter Credentials Grow in Comp | 02/12/2026 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Concerns are mounting among California’s certified medical interpreters about the growing misuse and misrepresentation of interpreter credentials in workers’ compensation medical-legal settings. Since 2022, members of the Northern California Translators Association and its Wor...Read More | |||
| 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 | |||
