Industry Insights
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Montgomery: WCB Provider Webinar Series Returns Tuesday | 08/14/2026 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| New York’s Workers’ Compensation Board will host the next installment of its "What Providers Need to Know" webinar series from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: Where's the Data in CWCI's Cumulative Trauma Report? | 08/12/2026 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| A new report from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute is reverberating across the industry, with the organization purporting to d...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: Three Reasons Why the MPN System Is a Failure | 07/29/2026 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| At a meeting of California’s Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation, a payer and network advocate argued that the state’s chaotic medical provider network system is a sterling success, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary....Read More | |||
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Montgomery: Presenting Hard Truths to the CHSWC | 07/23/2026 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| At a June 26 meeting of California’s Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation, daisyBill co-founder and CEO Catherine Montgomery detailed some of the serious administrative obstacles providers face when treating injured workers. ...Read More | |||
| Montgomery: Comp Remains Profitable, but Insurers Still Want More From Employers | 06/12/2026 | ||
| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| The National Council on Compensation Insurance released its 2026 State of the Line report, and its conclusions are no surprise to industry experts: Workers’ comp rema...Read More | |||
| Montgomery: N.Y. Is Right to Celebrate. What Can Calif. Learn? | 05/11/2026 | ||
| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| New York's Workers' Compensation Board recently issued a bulletin touting its accomplishments over the last several years. While it’s hard not to be skeptical of a gove...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: Hochul Calls for 'Universal' Provider Authorization | 04/06/2026 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| New York, its Workers’ Compensation Board and Gov. Kathy Hochul are reshaping the state’s workers’ comp system, one step at a time. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: Does State's Workers' Comp Cause Secondary Psych Injuries? | 03/23/2026 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| New research illuminates a serious problem for injured workers: secondary psychological injuries resulting from the sheer hardship of navigating workers’ comp systems. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: San Fran City Official Stole $627k From Workers' Comp Division | 12/10/2025 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| In the latest example of how indefensibly corrupt California’s workers’ compensation system has become, a former San Francisco city official pleaded guilty to embezzling $627,118 from municipal coffers by paying a fake company to “audit” workers’ ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: State's First Responders May File Comp Claims for Trauma | 11/14/2025 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| As of Oct. 30, 2025, Pennsylvania first responders may file a workers’ compensation claim for post-traumatic stress injuries (PTSIs) that result from certain qualifying events. ...Read More | |||
