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Report: California Self-Insured Workers’ Comp Claim Frequency Rose Last Year

Workers’ compensation claim frequency reported by California’s private self-insured employers rose last year, the first increase in a decade, according to the California Workers’ Compensation ... read more

Workers' Comp Drags Out Medical Care, Injured Workers and their Doctors Say

Instead, state agencies most often point to data and reports published by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI), a ... so Kalra requested the treatment again in October of last year. ... read more

Workers' Comp Market Seeing 'Balance,' but Challenges Remain in 2014

After holding steady at a 5% market share, from 2009 to 2011, market share rose to 7% in 2012 and to 8% last year ... in California where the [Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Board] has ... read more

New jobless claims drop to 646K

based company, often seen as a bellwether for the U.S. economy, also plans to scale back some workers’ hours and wages. In a separate report Thursday, the Labor Department said unemployment rose ... ... read more

Report: California Self-Insured Workers’ Comp Claims Rose Only Slightly Last Year

California public self-insured workers’ compensation claims from fiscal year 2016-2017 rose less than 0.4 percent ... entities reported just 116,251 claims last year, only 421 more than m the FY 2015 ... read more

Pain drug abuse fuels competition, legal battles for companies

Ameritox denies the claims, ... drug screenings — for patient monitoring as well as other purposes such as employee vetting — grew to $2 billion last year, according to market research firm IBIS. ... read more

New Jobless Claims Fall More than Expected to 646K

But continuing claims ... workers are having difficulty finding jobs. And even that number is deceptively low: an additional 1.5 million people were receiving benefits under an extended unemployment ... read more

Blue Cross profits surging

The financial reports only cover Health Care Service's insurance operation. Not included is its low-margin, fee-based work administering health plans for self-insured clients ... Ms. Hall's pay fell 8 ... read more

WC Insurers Enjoy Excellent Performance, But Challenges Could Put Profits At Risk

Among the highlights: o Workers’ comp turned in an excellent financial performance in 2006. As noted in NCCI’s annual “State of the Line” report ... claim size by two-to-three points per year. Last ... read more

Workers' Comp Gains Haven't Eased the Pain of Tough Cases

Two years after California overhauled its workers' compensation ... number of claims has plummeted -- by 28% in the last two years -- appeals of claim denials are up. Requests for hearings rose 7.6% ... read more

Dow's surge, other signs lead to optimism on economy

The monthly unemployment report due out Friday likely will be dismal, and new jobless claims reported Thursday were worse than expected. The Labor Department said initial claims for unemployment ... read more

James River Group Holdings (JRVR) CEO Robert Myron on Q1 2019 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Submissions were up 52% in our individual risk workers' compensation business ... in some decreased level of frequency of claims. And I think, the other big thing really for us is, we've talked a lot ... read more