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’...
Nevada OKs Workers’ Comp Loss-Cost and Assigned-Risk Rate Decreases March 1, 2019 Nevada Insurance Commissioner Barbara D. Richardson approved a filing from the National Council on Compensation Insurance for an average decrease...
Participants in $200M California Workers’ Comp Scheme Sentenced February 25, 2019 Several conspirators involved in a massive workers’ comp kickback scheme have been ordered to serve prison sentences and pay millions...