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Paduda: COVID Is Crushing Work Comp Claim Counts
08/07/2020
Hopkins.
The vast majority of COVID claims reported have been accepted.
And perhaps the most important data point Total claims COVID and non-COVID dropped 36.4 from the first half of 2019 to the first half of 2020.
Kudos to the fine folks at CWCI. They
Category: Industry Insights
COVID-19 Claims Could Cost at Least $2.17B Over Next 3 Years, WCIRB Says
08/06/2020
claims or about 43 came from the health care field according to the CWCI data.
CORRECTION This story was revised to indicate that the term "outbreak" means four people testing positive at a place with 100 or fewer employees or 4 of people testing positive at a place with more than 100 employees.
Category: News
Nearly 15,000 COVID Claims Filed Through June, CWCI Data Shows
08/05/2020
Nearly 15000 claims for COVID-19 have been filed through the end of June according to data included in a new tool launched by the California Workers Compensation Institute.
The CWCI data shows 14470 COVID claims filed through the first six months of the year. CWCI is projecting that the
Category: News
Hearing on Presumption Bill Delayed to Aug. 11
07/29/2020
while another 36.9 were pending with claims administrators still trying to collect test results or other information to decide on compensability. CWCI also reported that 35.5 of claims were denied.
Nearly three-quarters of the denied cases were rejected because the worker tested negative for COVID
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CWCI : Frequency Falls for Private Self-Insured Employers
07/15/2020
statewide employment up to record levels last year CWCI said in a bulletin published Monday. Despite the four-year uptrend in claim counts a review of the initial reports submitted by private self-insureds over the past 15 years shows that private self-insured claim volume last year was still 19.4
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Senator Amends Presumption Bill to Mimic Governor's EO; Businesses Worry About Increased Costs​
06/23/2020
employment. The claims that CWCI reviewed include some with a date of injury that precedes Newsoms order.
While Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara last week approved regulatory changes that will to some degree shield employers from the cost of COVID-19 claims Cushing said the business community
Category: News
Written Premium Falls 7%; SCIF Returns as Largest Carrier
06/17/2020
Direct written premium fell 7 to a five-year low of 11.42 billion in 2019 the California Workers Compensation Institute reported in a bulletin published Tuesday.
Workers' compensation annual direct written premium reported by CWCI.
At the same time State Compensation Insurance Fund
Category: News
WCIRB: Early Data Shows Prescription Drug Use Inching Upward
06/16/2020
2019 the data shows.
In California the opioid epidemic seems to have turned a corner Ellen Sims Langille general counsel for the CWCI said during the Division of Workers Compensation Educational Conference on March 7.
Since then however COVID-19 has created some havoc in California
Category: News
CWCI Case Law Update Scheduled for July 7
06/10/2020
The California Workers Compensation Institute announced that the online broadcast of its annual case law update originally scheduled for May 7 will be held on July 7.
Ellen Sims Langille
CWCI photo
The full-day program will cover recent court decisions appropriate negotiation and
Category: News
CalMatters: Roughly 1 in 5 COVID Claims Denied
06/05/2020
CalMatters reported Thursday that roughly one in five of the more than 5000 workers compensation claims filed between January and May were denied.
The denial rate is lower than what the California Workers Compensation Institute reported in May. CWCI reviewed 1077 claims that were filed as
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