Liberty Mutual
Mar 11, 2025
Liberty Mutual's Ongoing e-EOR Violations Hurt Employers
Liberty Mutual’s ongoing failure to consistently adhere to California workers’ comp regulations should raise concerns for employers and healthcare providers. Despite c...
Feb 5, 2025
Liberty Mutual: 7,369 Audit Complaints Filed With the CA DWC
Liberty Mutualfails to uphold its obligations to workers’ compensation providers, making it even more challenging for providers to treatinjured workers. All...
Sep 24, 2024
CA DWC Fails Employers and Employees
Without enforcement, no amount of laws or regulations can improve or even maintain a functioning workers’ compensation system. California is a tragic example of...
Sep 23, 2024
CA DWC Ignores Authorization, Lets Liberty Mutual Stiff Orthopedist
The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), under Administrative Director George Parisotto, has allowed Liberty Mutual to deny thousands in payment owed to a California orth...
Sep 20, 2024
Liberty Mutual Feeds UR Vendors (While CA Worker Waits for Care)
In California workers’ comp, Utilization Review (UR) is the process by which claims administrators decide whether or not to authorize the care recommended by an injured worke...
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Sep 18, 2024
Liberty Mutual: 23-Month Wait for Surgery in CA
If you need proof of how dysfunctional California workers’ comp is—and that absurdly long claim durations have become the appalling standard—see the 23-month ordeal an injure...
Apr 21, 2022
Alert: Mitchell Hustles Providers for Liberty Mutual
Providers, be warned: Mitchell International, a company offering “workers’ compensation bill review & claims management services,” seems to be playing the hustler on behalf o...
Sep 22, 2021
Liberty Mutual Stiffs QME - Attorneys Required
Hello California Workers’ Comp Attorneys, Medical-Legal physicians in this state need your help. Payers like Liberty Mutual have found a way to skirt the Independent ...
Aug 12, 2021
Med-Legal ML106: IBRs Leave No Doubt
If it wasn’t clear before, it certainly is now. Physicians should bill for supplemental Medical-Legal reports requested before April 1, 2021 with billing code ML106, regardle...
Jul 9, 2021
ML106: Liberty Mutual Must Learn the Rules
California’s all-new Medical-Legal Fee Schedule (MLFS) debuted back in April, but some claims administrators are still a few steps behind. To bill for supplemental Med...
Jun 29, 2021
Med-Legal Bill Denied for Liability? Request IBR
Certain California workers’ comp payers deny reimbursement for Medical-Legal evaluations by claiming lack of liability for the initial injury. With this twisted, circular log...
Nov 10, 2020
Data PROVES Electronic Billing for Workers' Comp Works
COVID-19 and our recent elections highlight the flaws, delays, and increasing creakiness of the US postal system. In 2020, as mail fails, electronic bill transmission offers ...