California’s workers’ comp system is rife with mistrust and a lack of communication between medical providers and claims examiners, and it’s resulting in worse outcomes
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected female workers, due in part to an increase in work-from-home policies that are likely to continue even after the
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At last year’s Division of Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference, California stakeholders wondered what impacts an encroaching COVID-19 pandemic would have on the state’s comp system.
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Workers’ comp researchers have sometimes looked to the Great Recession as a way to navigate the COVID-caused economic downturn, but the recent pandemic has presented
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The COVID-19 pandemic crippled the economy in some parts of the U.S. in 2020, but access to treatment for injured workers remained relatively unchanged from
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A California state Senate committee on Monday approved a bill that seeks to prohibit discrimination in apportionment, and supporters said they’ll consider amendments submitted by
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The Ohio Supreme Court last week disapproved of an out-of-state attorney’s application for admission to the Ohio bar due to concern over his character, fitness and
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More than two-thirds of the U.S. labor force lives in states that allow medical or recreational marijuana, but workers’ comp systems across the country continue
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Although only a few hundred worker deaths in California have been attributed to COVID-19, the share of death claims that provided the first notice of
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Staff from the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau and members of its Actuarial Committee agreed Tuesday that the bureau likely won’t include a COVID-19
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