The California workers’ compensation COVID-19 claim count continued to grow in August, albeit at a much slower rate than in July, with new data showing that as of Sept. 21, the state had recorded 5,130 COVID-19 claims with August injury…
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Employers nationwide are following the legislative push to accept COVID-19 claims by presumption in workers compensation, changes that aren’t necessarily guaranteeing that such infectious disease claims will be greenlighted but instead promise a surge in litigation and confusion, experts say….
Workers compensation medical payments and claims with an opioid prescription in California continued to decline in 2019, according to a study released Thursday by the Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. California’s workers comp system made $2 billion in medical payments…
California lawmakers passed legislation late Monday that would extend Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive making it easier for essential workers to receive workers compensation if they contact COVID-19 on the job. S.B. 1159 passed the state’s Assembly 69-4 and the Senate…
As of Aug. 10, there were 9,515 COVID-19 workers compensation claims reported for July, bringing the total for the year to 31,612 claims, or 10.2% of all California job injury claims in 2020, the California Workers’ Compensation Institute reported Tuesday….
A middle-aged couple severely injured when they went to check on a neighbor at the request of a law enforcement officer should not be awarded damages other than workers compensation benefits, even though they were not employed by the local…
COVID-19 has become a large chunk of a dwindling number of workers’ compensation claims in Florida and California, limited data shows. The number of COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims reported in California more than quadrupled to 22,621 since the last data…
Meliton Hernandez Martinez Jr., 23, was arraigned today at the Merced County Superior Court in California on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and a misdemeanor count of filing a false police report, after allegedly instigating a physical altercation resulting…
A staff engineer for the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board recommended Monday that the board deny a petition seeking an emergency temporary standard on COVID-19 protections for employees, although Cal/OSHA’s chief supported its passage. The petition, filed by…
A sharp drop in 2020 workers’ compensation premiums in California is expected with the COVID-19 pandemic-related job losses, a report out today shows. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s 2020 State of the System report paints a picture…