California Workers' Comp

CA: Roxborough Elected 2026 CHSWC Chair

California’s Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation (CHSWC) unanimously elected employer representative Nicholas Roxborough to chair the Commission in 2026...

Gold Star: CA State Fund Reverses Denial, Pays Penalties & Interest

Improper payment denials and reductions are inevitable for providers who treat injured workers (more so than in group health or Medicare, which is why many physicians avoid w...

Insurers Are Fleecing CA Employers: NY Edition

This week, yet another state demonstrates that market conditions warrant a break for employers on the cost of workers’ comp coverage, as California continues to punish employ...

Where Is Your Medical-Legal Payment?

If your Medical-Legal reimbursements take months to arrive, something is wrong. That revenue belongs to you, not the entity managing your Medical-Legal evaluations and...

Insurers Are Fleecing CA Employers: TX Edition

Increasingly, employers are setting up shop in Texas, fleeing places like Gavin Newsom’s California.We can think of one contributing factor to this trend.Earlie...

San Fran City Official Stole $627k From Workers’ Comp Division

In the latest example of how indefensibly corrupt California’s workers’ compensation system has become, a former San Francisco city official pleaded guilty to embezzling $627...

Insurers Are Fleecing CA Employers: FL Edition

For California employers, premium rates for workers' comp coverage are going up. Yet in most other states, employers are watching their comp rates decrease. Why?Nation...

CA: The Corruption Under Newsom’s Nose

California Governor Gavin Newsom has never been charged with (or even credibly accused of) any serious crime. However, the presidential hopeful may have a serious blind spot ...

CA Med-Legal: Do Not Review Records Without Proper Declaration & Attestation

A warning for California doctors conducting Medical-Legal evaluations: Do not review medical records where the parties failed to deliver those records in accordance with stat...

CA: No Authorization Required for Med-Legal Diagnostic Tests

California providers: You do not need authorization to conduct diagnostic testing as part of a Medical-Legal evaluation. And yes, the claims administrator is responsib...

Billing Alert: CA State Fund Drops TPA

Attention California providers: Third-Party Administrator (TPA) Acclamation Insurance Management Services (AIMS) is no longer handling workers’ comp claims for employees of t...

CA State Fund Profits Exposes WCIRB's Manufactured Crisis

According to the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB), California workers’ comp insurers are caught in a death spiral of underwriting losses. However,...