Claims associated with functional restoration programs in California’s workers’ compensation system averaged $234,003 total, 59% higher than matched non-FRP claims,...
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California’s private self-insured employers reported 7.4% fewer workers’ compensation claims in 2024 than in 2023, pushing private self-insured claim frequency...
Long COVID cases accounted for 82.1% of the treatment payments on COVID claims and 73.7% of all COVID-19 claim payments...
The number of qualified medical evaluators in California’s workers’ compensation system has increased since 2019, but the demand for their...
Increases in average medical payments and average indemnity payments drove public self-insureds’ total paid losses up last year even though...
Dermatologicals, which include a number of high-priced, private label drugs, account for the biggest share of the total drug spend...
The board of directors of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute named the institute’s chief operating officer, Gideon L. Baum, as...
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...