03/21/2024
The California Workers Compensation Institute announced that Eric M. Hansen was elected chairman of its board of directors.
Eric M. Hansen
Hansen senior vice president of underwriting at Preferred Employers was first elected to the CWCI board in 2014 and has been a member of the CWCI
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03/12/2024
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CWCI said work comp benefits paid in California in 2021 totaled 12.429 billion 6.285 billion in medical and 6.144 billion in indemnity compared to 11.874 billion in 2020.
Californias rebound from 2020s pandemic-driven recession kept pace with the rest of the country as in 2021 the state
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02/26/2024
discussion of negotiation and defense strategies for attorneys claims workers and hearing reps.
CWCI Senior Vice President of Claims and General Counsel Sara Widener-Brightwell will moderate the discussion among a panel of legal experts from Northern and Southern California including Richard Jacobsmeyer
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02/09/2024
continue to present significant challenges in designing an integrated system CWCI said in a statement. These include the lack of a shared risk component in workers compensation which has no co-pays deductibles or lifetime limits; the different dispute resolution and claim settlement processes; the
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02/01/2024
-based guidelines for surgeries and other procedures as well as the elimination of the duplicate payment for spinal fusions also contributed to the decrease in hospitalizations CWCI said.
The number of work comp inpatient stays fell from 21505 in 2012 to 10516 in 2022 a decrease of 51.1. The
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01/05/2024
The California Workers Compensation Institute opened registration for its 60th annual meeting scheduled for March 19 in Oakland.
CWCI President Alex Swedlow
The theme for the event is An Altered State The Shifting Role of California Workers Compensation 1964-2024.
CWCI President
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01/03/2024
. Before that he was staff director for the Senate Committee on Labor Public Employment and Retirement.
Baum was a consultant with the Senate for nearly 15 years where he drafted analyses of work comp bills including Senate Bill 863.
CWCI said Buam will manage its day-to-day operations and
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12/20/2023
-side stakeholders are concerned about UR and independent medical review as practiced in California until 2023 there was no database questioning CWCI stats and those concerned about UR have mainly provided anecdotal complaints.
However in 2023 DaisyBill
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12/18/2023
The California Workers Compensation Institute said initial data for the fiscal year ending in June shows decreases in total claim volume incurred losses and paid losses.
A sharp drop in indemnity claims drove the 16.8 decrease in total claim volume CWCI said in its assessment of data
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11/27/2023
then edged up slightly as the unemployment rate fell to 7.3 in 2021 before surging more than 25 as the unemployment rate plunged to 4.2 last year CWCI said in Bulletin No. 23-16 released Tuesday. The changes in the number of work injuries and illnesses in 2020 and 2021 largely tracked with
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