Employers may be warming up to the idea that fighting some workers’ compensation claims and medical treatments can be counterproductive, and new emphasis should be placed on keeping injured workers happy – and out of the courtroom. “The workers’ comp…
In the first year of the pandemic, COVID-19 claims in workers compensation made up roughly 1/10th of claims and on average were less costly than non-COVID claims in almost every state, according to new analysis published Wednesday by the Workers…
California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that the 2022 minimum and maximum temporary total disability rates will increase on Jan. 1, 2022. The minimum TTD rate will increase from $203.44 to $230.95 and the maximum TTD rate will increase from…
Recent litigation and proposed legislation in some eastern states may have opened the door to more widespread use of cannabis to treat injured workers, experts say. Cases heard in courts in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey and New Hampshire…
A law that goes into effect next year that will greatly expand the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s ability to impose fines for pandemic-related offenses is a wake-up call for businesses with multiple locations, legal experts say. There…
Based on claims data from years before the PTSD presumption created by Senate Bill 542 took effect in 2020 in California, policy think tank Rand Corp. found that first responders filed more claims for the condition and that those claims…
A lawsuit pending in a California appeals court threatens to upend a more than century-old workers compensation provision that legal experts say could subject employers to potentially unlimited tort liability and trigger an avalanche of litigation. In the case of…
A judge Friday struck down a California ballot measure that exempted Uber and other app-based ride-hailing and delivery services from a state law requiring drivers to be classified as employees eligible for benefits and job protections. Alameda County Superior Court…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed legislation that would entitle certain classes of workers to special benefits if they die or become disabled due to COVID-19. A.B. 845, which unanimously passed both the Assembly and Senate, would create a…
Workers compensation claims for COVID-19 in California fell nearly 99% in the past six months from the state’s high of 43,109 coronavirus claims in December, said the California Workers Compensation Institute in a bulletin released Thursday. Monthly counts of COVID-19…