Oregon Workers’ Comp Costs Dropping for 8th Straight Year September 9, 2020 Oregon employers on average will pay less for workers’ compensation coverage in 2021, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business...
Washington Extends Relief for Employers Struggling to Pay Workers’ Comp July 29, 2020 The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries is again extending the deadline for employers that are finding it difficult...
Report on California Workers’ Comp Looks at Medical Provider Fraud December 4, 2019 The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California in a follow-up analysis to its 2018 study that evaluated the potential...
Drop in California Workers’ Comp Opioid Use Reducing Claims $6.5B, Report Shows November 12, 2019 The prevalence of opioids in California workers’ compensation lost-time claims has dropped 51% over the past decade, reducing both average...
Study: 94.1% Approval Rate for California Workers’ Comp Treatment Services October 29, 2019 A new study shows that following the adoption of recent changes to streamline the California workers’ compensation medical review and...
California Workers’ Compensation Bureau Testifies on 2020 Advisory Rate Drop October 15, 2019 The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Monday presented the actuarial basis for an average proposed Jan. 1,...
Drop in Workers’ Comp Rates in Washington Proposed for 3rd Straight Year September 18, 2019 The price of workers’ compensation insurance in Washington would drop for the third year in a row under a proposal...
Conference: California Workers’ Comp Should Embrace Innovation September 6, 2019 By Don Jergler The workers’ compensation market apparently needs to do some catching up where it concerns technology. “Historically we’ve been really slow...
Pets Account for Nearly 400 Workers’ Comp Claims A Year in Oregon July 25, 2019 Slip and falls, flying tools, poor posture. The workplace can be dangerous, and now you can add pets to the...
California Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Chief’s Message to Comp Community April 29, 2019 The California workers’ compensation marketplace today remains generally healthy for insurers, employers and injured workers, the chief of the Workers’...