California Workers' Comp

Insurers Are Fleecing CA Employers: Virginia Edition

Virginia will likely cut the premium rates employers pay to maintain workers’ comp coverage, thanks to a proposed decrease to the state’s advisory loss cost levels from the N...

CA: West Bend Insurance's EOR Non-Compliance

West Bend Insurance Company (WBIC) is not among the largest payers in our systems, handling less than 500 of our providers’ bills annually. That doesn’t ...

CA: Don’t Waste Your Time on RAND’s UR Study

If California’s Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) had taken $300,000 of taxpayer money, thrown it into a gravel pit, and set it on fire, it would have been only slight...

Liberty Mutual Celebrates “Payment Holidays” Instead of Reimbursing Providers

Liberty Mutual failed to pay multiple bills for an injured California worker’s treatment, only for daisyCollect to discover (again) that th...

CA: daisyBill Presents Hard Truths to CHSWC

At a June 26 meeting of California’s Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation (CHSWC), daisyBill Co-founder and CEO Catherine Montgomery detailed some of the...

CA: 6.6% Increase for Comp Premiums in September 2026

California’s Insurance Commissioner, Ricardo Lara, announced a 6.6% increase in advisory pure premium rates for workers’ comp coverage, effective September 1, 2026.Tra...

Sedgwick & Apricus Dispute Leaves Provider Unpaid (Again)

A California provider is missing thousands in reimbursement for authorized treatment due to (another) circular dispute between the Third-Party Administrator (TPA), Sedgwick C...

Liberty Mutual's “Payment Holiday”: A Vacation From CA Law

daisyBill submits millions of bills for injured workers' treatment every year. We've heard every excuse payers can produce for failing to reimburse, but Liberty Mutual just s...

CA Fee Schedule Update: Physician Services (Q3 2026)

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) issued a third-quarter update to the Physician and Non-Physician Practitioner Fee Schedule for workers’ compensation...

Join daisyBill at CCWC and AOSSM in July

daisyBill will attend two conferences worth your time in July: The California Coalition on Workers’ Compensation (CCWC) takes place from July 7-9 in Anaheim. CCWC work...

The Hartford Doubles Down on Improper Payment Denials (Part 2)

California consistently fails to uphold one of the most important legal principles of its workers’ comp system: treatment authorization assures payment to the healthcare prov...

The Hartford Doubles Down on Improper Payment Denials (Part 1)

California law requires insurers to honor authorization for medically necessary treatment as a legally binding, non-rescindable guarantee of reimbursement. The Hartford is ei...