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According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, workers compensation insurance fraud costs insurers and employers more than $7 billion every year. That’s a staggering liability, and it’s one of the fastest growing areas of insurance fraud. And it’s not just about employees cheating the system as many might think. In fact, workers comp claimants only account […]
Ask any cross-country traveler which state has the most beautiful scenery, and California usually ranks at or near the top. Unfortunately, the Golden State also takes top honors in a less flattering contest – some of the highest workers’ compensation costs in the country. It’s long been an expensive, bloated, inefficient system, saddled with a […]
It seems like we just got past the Ebola crisis, and along comes the Zika virus. The recent outbreak in Brazil is spreading rapidly through the Americas and raising health concerns across the globe. The virus is transmitted by infected mosquitoes, and it’s been linked to severe birth defects in babies and deaths of babies […]
The California workers compensation insurance system has been a system in crisis for years. With a struggling economy and skyrocketing medical costs, benefits to injured workers have steadily been trimmed over the past two or three decades as businesses and governments struggle to keep costs under control. In recent years, many states have passed legislation […]
Nearly three million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses were reported by private employers in 2014 according to the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. And according to the 2016 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index, workplace accidents and injuries that kept employees off work for six days […]
While most employers across the country have seen a drop in workers’ compensation claim frequency since 2010, California continues to buck the trend and play by its own rules. According to a recent report by the California Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB), claim frequency in the Golden State increased 3 percent from 2010 to […]
For years, liens have been one of the biggest drains on the California workers compensation insurance system, costing employers and insurers hundreds of millions every year in loss adjustment expenses. SB863 made substantial changes to California’s workers comp system and 2012, including changes to the statute of limitations to file a lien, the lien claim […]
In the years since the 2012 reforms, California’s $16.5 billion workers’ compensation system has been grudgingly showing signs of recovery. SB863 was a massive overhaul, creating a $120 million return-to-work fund, establishing an independent medical review board, revising the permanent disability rules, and adding a controversial provision barring temporary staffing agencies from self-insuring for workers’ […]