Industry Insights
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Montgomery: Calls for Physician Suicide Awareness Highlight Systemic Harms to Providers | 10/30/2026 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| A publication reports that a bipartisan healthcare resolution is working its way through Congress. It mandates no changes to how healthcare is delivered but seeks to spotlight how systemic inequities harm providers as well as patients. The bill seeks to estab...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: Calif. Provider Warning: UEBTF Payment Delays | 10/22/2026 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| California’s Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust Fund serves an important function: to cover treatment and benefits for injured workers whose employers illegally failed to secure comp coverage. ...Read More | |||
| Montgomery: Self-Insured Employers: Does Prolonged Injury = Prolonged Profit? | 10/16/2026 | ||
| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| At this year’s National Comp conference, we had the pleasure of speaking with several self-insured employers, i.e., employers that cover their own injured workers’ care and benefits rather than paying premiums to a workers’ comp insurer. Many of these employers...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: Predicting Attorney Involvement in Comp Cases | 10/05/2026 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| A study of 400,000 workers’ comp claims from Crosstie, a claims management technology company that identifies workers’ comp cases likely to descend into litigation, reveals a telling pattern that could help explain excessive claim costs nationwide, especially in&nb...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: State Fund Is Crushing It | 10/01/2026 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund is the nonprofit insurer of last resort for California employers. This critical backstop provides, as President and CEO Vern Steiner puts it, “fairly priced workers’ compensation insurance to any California business that n...Read More | |||
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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 | |||
