A new California Workers’ Compensation Institute study shows that on average, California work injury claims from 2002 through 2011 that involved physician-dispensed repackaged drugs had 17 percent higher medical benefit costs, 13 percent higher indemnity costs and 9 percent more …
A report issued last week by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute shows workers’ comp insurers’ loss and expense payments rose to nearly $12.5 billion in 2011, an increase of over $1 billion. The report, compiled from statistics from the Workers’ …
Compwest Insurance Co. founder Bill Mudge is no longer president and chief executive of the firm he started in 2004. Mudge’s name has been removed from the company’s phone system, and it disappeared off its website on Thursday. A spokeswoman …