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Sep 16, 2025
CA Employers: Comp Premium Hike Based On Bad Data
While most states are lowering employers’ workers’ comp premiums, California is heading in the opposite direction. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved a premium rate...
Sep 11, 2025
CA Providers Among Lowest Paid as Employers Pay Increasing Premiums
California’s Insurance Commissioner, Ricardo Lara, recently increased the advisory pure premium rate by 8.7%, to $1.52 per $100 of payroll for workers’ compensation policies ...
Sep 9, 2025
WCIRB's "Industry Stats" Report: Unverifiable, Outdated Data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Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) is at it again, releasing a “new” report full of questionable, outdated, insurer-provided data that no outs...
Sep 5, 2025
CA Employers Beware: Problems With WCIRB Reports
In its 2025 State of the System report, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) presents its findings with an air of authority. However, a close look...
Aug 11, 2025
CA: “Unlisted" Codes - Same Old Blame-the-Thieving-Doctor Trope
To understand what truly drives workers’ comp costs, California must stop relying on insurer-produced “research” that misleads employers and scapegoats doctors.Califor...
Aug 5, 2025
WCIRB’s Flawed Data Means Higher Premiums for CA Employers
Insurers control the narrative around California’s workers’ compensation—and it’s costing the state’s employers more every year.Annually, the Workers’ Compensation Ins...
Jun 19, 2025
DWC Data: Texas Delivers, California Dodges
The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (TX DWC) and the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) each hold a sacred public trust to oversee the treatment of...
Jun 3, 2025
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...
May 20, 2025
Comp Is a Cash Cow—But CA Insurers Want Higher Rates?
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) just voted to ask California’s Insurance Commissioner to increase workers’ comp insurance rates by 11.2%.Tha...
Sep 12, 2024
DWC's Failed WCIS Taints CHSWC Reports
With 49 cents spent on administrative expenses for every dollar spent on actual benefits (over absurdly stretched 7-year claim durations) California workers’ comp is in a fou...
Sep 10, 2024
CA Employers: Broken Workers' Comp Costs 2X National Median
In California, the frictional administrative expenses of caring for an injured worker cost employers almost twice the national median.According to a report from the Wo...
Sep 5, 2024
Broken CA Workers' Comp Takes 7 Years to Close Claims
In California, closing an injured worker’s claim takes over twice as long as the national median. According to a report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance...