
Although only a few hundred worker deaths in California have been attributed to COVID-19, the share of death claims that provided the first notice of
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Staff from the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau and members of its Actuarial Committee agreed Tuesday that the bureau likely won’t include a COVID-19
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Members of Oregon's Management-Labor Advisory Committee group tasked with tweaking a bill that would change restrictions on retroactive temporary disability and limit insurers’ ability to
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Some workers’ compensation experts feared the COVID-19 pandemic would negatively affect initial access to care for California workers who filed non-virus-related claims last year.
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California and its workers’ comp system may have outlasted the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the state’s recovery could be relatively slow as
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Businesses should prepare for more workplace inspections and increasing penalties for violations as President Biden’s administration may ramp up the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s
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Pinnacol Assurance would pay Colorado and its state worker pension fund more than a half-billion dollars combined, under the latest proposal to sever the carrier's ties
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California Senate committees on Monday passed a bill that would require certain contractors to purchase comp coverage, and another to extend a post-traumatic stress disorder presumption
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The Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation approved a proposed study that will examine physical exposure and musculoskeletal injury risks for janitorial workers
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The California Department of Industrial Relations announced plans to conduct an in-depth study of its Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund on Thursday, the same day
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