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Young: The Cost of Doing Business

09/21/2021
unions. So any effort to tie high frictional costs to cumulative claims will be heavily scrutinized. Meanwhile the California Workers’ Compensation Institute has unveiled a study that examines costs under the new Medical-Legal Fee Schedule. According to the CWCI the average

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CWCI : Average Med-Legal Payment Increased 67% Under New Fee Schedule

09/17/2021
CWCI reported in a Bulletin published Wednesday. The increase in payments also exceeds the 22 preliminary estimate from the Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau presented during an Actuarial Committee meeting in April showing overall medical-legal payments could increase to about 469

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CWCI : COVID-19 Accounts for More Than Half of Death Claims

09/13/2021
workplace fatalities claimed during the first half of 2021 accounting for 166 out of the 202 death claims CWCI said in a report released Friday. Altogether the 1032 COVID death claims reported for the first 18 months of the pandemic represented more than half 53.4 of the 1931 workers compensation

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Delta Variant Causes Spike in COVID-19 Claims, CWCI Says

08/17/2021
reached a 16-month low in June when just 676 COVID claims were reported according to data CWCI compiled as of Aug. 9. That total skyrocketed last month however as the count surged to 2581 reported COVID claims a month-over-month increase of 282 according to CWCI. The COVID claim count for July

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CWCI : Frequency, Losses Spiked in 2020 for Private Self-Insureds

07/22/2021
employees nearly matching the overall frequency rates from 2018 and 2019 though the breakdown by claim type underscores the major shift in claim distribution away from less costly medical-only claims and toward more expensive indemnity claims CWCI said in a statement. While medical-only claim

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CWCI : Prompt Reporting Emerges as Area of Concern as COVID-19 Claim Count Drops

07/16/2021
cases due to the viruss delta variant CWCI reports 453 claims were filed in June. That beats the previous low of 668 claims reported in May. CWCI is projecting a total of 612 claims for June and 741 for May. The number of COVID-19 claims has been declining consistently since the high point in

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Young: Top 10 Workers' Comp Developments of 2021 First Half

07/09/2021
manner. Countering this insurer advocates claim that most injured workers receive timely treatment and they question the need for reform. In opposition to the proposal for a statewide MPN network CWCI produced a position

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San Francisco to Require Vaccination for City Workers

06/25/2021
workers with 160. CWCI reports 146454 statewide COVID-19 claims were filed through May.

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CWCI 2021 Case Law Update Program Available On Demand

06/11/2021
The California Workers Compensation Institute announced that its five-hour case law update is available as an on-demand webinar. Richard Jacobsmeyer CWCI presented its 23rd annual California Workers Compensation Case Law Seminar as a live online event. The program presented by defense

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Lawmakers Pass Bills to Shorten Investigation Period, Mandate MLFS Updates

06/03/2021
allocated and unallocated loss adjustment expenses related to the investigation process CWCI said. As a result recent improvements to the overall health of the California workers compensation system in reducing litigation flattening medical inflation and reducing expenses could be jeopardized. SB

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