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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,...

CA: Sedgwick’s Rampant Second Review Violations

For providers, Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc.’s routine violations of state law and regulations make it increasingly difficult to treat injured workers. For...

CA DIR to Blow $1.25M On (Another) Questionable Comp Study

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) is set to waste $1,250,000 in taxpayer dollars on a faulty “study” of non-existent data.The Department of Ins...

CA Employers: Paying More for Comp Coverage as Insurers Make Bank

Yet another industry report confirms that workers’ compensation is stupendously profitable for insurers, outperforming the rest of the insurance industry even as rates decrea...

WCIRB's "Industry Stats" Report: Unverifiable, Outdated Data

California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) is at it again, releasing a “new” report full of questionable, outdated, insurer-provided data that no outs...

Who's Failing e-Billing? Introducing Payer EDI Grades

For workers’ comp electronic billing (e-billing) to function, payers (also known as claims administrators) must do their part.To hold them accountable, daisyBill now p...

Sedgwick’s New Website: Shaky Stats Tout Provider Exploitation

Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc. has a new website. True to brand, the new site makes one thing abundantly clear: marketing provider abuse is easier th...

Workers’ Comp Has a Serious Data Problem

Anyone who’s been hurt at work (or treated an injured worker) knows that the workers' comp system is in crisis. To fix it, stakeholders need reliable, verifiable data—but tha...

daisyNews Top 10 Articles January-June 2024

What mattered most to workers’ comp providers, billers, and other industry pros in the first two quarters of 2024? Let’s take a look at our most-read articles from January th...

WCIRB's Shocking Admission About Workers' Comp Data

The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) is the leading data source for California legislators, regulators, and others. But in its 2024 “State of the System”...

WCIRB Smoke & Mirrors Misinform CA Employers, Stakeholders

As daisyNews has long argued (and Workers’ Comp Executive recently pointed out), California has a major problem with how it assesses the challenges of workers' compensation: ...

CA: Orthopedist Payment Data by Claims Admin - Part 2

While all providers who agree to treat injured workers are essential, in this series, daisyBill focuses on orthopedic reimbursement to expose how California’s Medical Provide...