Appropriations committees in both chambers of the California Legislature passed multiple workers’ comp bills last week and the Assembly unanimously approved legislation that would extend
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A California appellate court in an unpublished decision upheld the dismissal of an unrepresented truck driver’s civil suit over his alleged chemical exposure injuries even
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A bill that would allow the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation to conduct benefit review conferences via video meetings on a permanent basis is headed
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The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau says California’s experience rating eligibility threshold should be lowered by $1,650, which researchers project would result in 10,000 new
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Some California comp stakeholders and industry watchers say proposed rules that would lengthen report-writing courses and eliminate some remote-learning options for qualified medical evaluators might
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Roughly 70% of workers’ compensation professionals expect the use of telemedicine or automated practices such as predictive analytics to grow over the next five to
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Workers’ compensation carriers showed resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the lingering economic impacts from its financial fallout could affect property and casualty insurers for
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Net written premium dropped 10% in 2020, but workers’ compensation systems across the U.S. appear to have weathered the COVID-19 pandemic, as carriers fielded fewer
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The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that a treatment provider waited too long after being allegedly short-changed by a municipal employer to file a claim
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Federal investigators have asked a U.S. district judge in Southern California for another chance to unlock a defendant’s smartphone they say contains evidence of his
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