Industry Insights
| CAAA: Major Corruption Engulfs Cal/OSHA | 08/20/2024 | ||
| By: California Applicants' Attorneys Association | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Cal/OSHA, the California agency responsible for enforcing workplace standards, has faced significant challenges with corruption within its ranks. In 2018, Richard Fazlollahi, a district manager for Cal/OSHA's Santa Ana office, was arrested and later convicted for his role in a bribery...Read More | |||
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Young: Survivor Bills | 08/19/2024 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| On Thursday, two California workers’ compensation bills survived the August legislative suspense file graveyard. ...Read More | |||
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Speekenbrink and Peters: AI and Empathetic Workers' Comp Adjusters | 08/15/2024 | |
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| By: Tycho Speekenbrink and John Peters | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Marie, a dedicated workers' compensation adjuster, faces an endless stream of complex claims. ...Read More | |||
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Snyder: Nudging Parties to Choose Settlement | 08/14/2024 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| At every stage in conflict resolution, parties face an array of choices, but they don’t always recognize them. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: What Happened to Micro-Captive Risk Management? | 08/13/2024 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Micro-captive risk management was one of the hot topics until the 831(b) captives disappeared from the workers' comp insurance scene. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: Mandatory E-Billing Approaches | 08/12/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| New York's Workers’ Compensation Board is asking providers to be proactive and get ahead of a major impending change: Electronic billing will be mandatory by this time next year. ...Read More | |||
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Johnson: SIBTF Study Is a Failure of Analysis | 08/09/2024 | |
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| By: Arthur L. Johnson | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| At the beginning of the 20th century, the “grand bargain” was enacted. That grand bargain provided: ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: DWC Defies Law, Botches WCIS | 08/08/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Without reliable data, no government can understand — let alone solve — the problems of any major system. Yet California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has openly defied California legislators and failed to gather vital workers’ comp data, in unabashed viol...Read More | |||
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Kamin: Labor Code 4053 and a Suspension of Benefits | 08/07/2024 | |
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| By: John P. Kamin | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| When an applicant refuses to attend a medical evaluation, one of the more straightforward statutes in the Labor Code allows for the court to suspend a case and bar an applicant’s right to benefits. ...Read More | |||
| CAAA: A Victory for App-Based Companies; a Loss for App-Based Workers | 08/06/2024 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| On July 25, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 22, allowing companies like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash to classify their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. This ruling in Hector Castellanos v. State of California was not unexpected, as observers of the...Read More | |||
