The California Assembly Insurance Committee is scheduled to hear testimony March 22 on bills that would allow work comp carriers to continue paying benefits with
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A Southern California police officer convicted of workers’ compensation fraud paid $95,870 in restitution, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Jonathan Ridge, 39, was
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The owner of a Northern California janitorial firm was sentenced to jail and ordered to pay $8.3 million in restitution following a workers’ compensation fraud
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The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division on Friday announced that it revised the form used to request a hearing on a matter that falls within the
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The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau, during a March 23 webinar, will discuss trends involving telehealth services in California.
Telehealth services in the state’s comp
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An Oregon legislator introduced bills to require timely reporting of injuries by employers and to permit physician assistants to treat injured workers in comp cases.
House
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The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California is proposing to increase the threshold used to determine whether employers will be eligible for experience rating.
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The California Department of Industrial Relations on Monday said its Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board issued a precedential decision clarifying what it means for
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A California appellate court rejected a former emergency dispatcher’s challenge to the denial of her request for disability retirement benefits for her alleged work-related psychological
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A California appellate court revived a worker’s claims for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress against three former colleagues for allegedly attacking him to
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