California Workers' Comp

NY: WCB Provider Webinar Series Returns August 18

New York’s Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) will host the next installment of its What Providers Need to Know webinar series on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, from 12:00 to 1:00 ...

CA: RAND Finds SB 1160 Had Little Impact on UR

As daisyNews reported previously, California’s Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) paid RAND $300,000 to study the impact of Senate Bill 1160 on Utilization Review (UR),...

Zurich: Blind to Its Own Treatment Authorization

In California workers’ comp, providers cannot render treatment without obtaining authorization from the payer. Accordingly, authorization is legally defined as a non-rescinda...

CWCI Cumulative Trauma Report: Where’s the Data?

A new report from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) is reverberating across the industry, with the organization purporting to document a shocking rise in ...

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...