Increases in average medical payments and average indemnity payments drove public self-insureds’ total paid losses up last year even though...
California Workers’ Compensation Institute News
A California Workers’ Compensation Institute analysis opioid prescription data between 2017 and 2023 from the California Department of Justice’s Controlled...
A bill that would give a presumption of compensability to farmworker heat-related injury claims if an employer is found to...
A California Workers’ Compensation Institute study shows nearly half of all litigated claims in the Los Angeles Basin are cumulative...
The number of inpatient hospitalizations in the California workers’ compensation system declined 51.1% between 2012 and 2022, a new report...
A well-known workers’ comp number cruncher and an actuary are calling Chicken Little on insurance industry warnings about the cost...
California workers had filed 5,093 COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims as of Tuesday, according to the state Department of Industrial Relations,...
Workers’ compensation insurers are reporting dramatic reductions in opioid use by injured workers. In some cases, all it took was...
Opioids remain the most common type of prescription drug used to treat California injured workers with lost-time injuries, but sustained...
A study on the use of spinal fusion surgeries in California workers’ compensation shows that in 60 percent of spinal...