San Francisco, CA – The Division of Workers’ Compensation recently posted the 2019 Ethics Advisory Committee’s annual report on its website. The Workers’ Compensation Ethics Advisory Committee is a state committee independent from DWC that is charged with reviewing and monitoring complaints of misconduct filed against workers’ compensation administrative law judges. The Ethics Advisory Committee… [Read more]
Association, Rating & Research News
Coventry Releases New White Paper on Mental Health Challenges in Workers’ Comp
Downers Grove, IL – Coventry recently announced the release of a new whitepaper entitled “To Best Treat a Worker’s Injury, Look for a Broken Spirit, Not Just a Broken Bone,” which explores identifying injured workers who need mental health intervention and building clinically sound treatment plans. When someone gets hurt on the job, the workers’… [Read more]
Off-Label Prescribing, Effects of Opioid-Related Policies on WCRI Virtual Conference Agenda
Cambridge, MA – The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) recently announced that Dr. Vennela Thumula and Dr. Bogdan Savych will be presenting highlights from WCRI’s latest prescription drugs research on the first day of the Institute’s 37th Annual Issues & Research Conference, which is being held virtually March 23 and 24, 2021. In this session,… [Read more]
CA WCIRB Analyzes Cost Impact of California’s Drug Formulary
San Francisco, CA – The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB) has updated the cost impact evaluation of the Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule (MTUS) Drug Formulary, utilizing additional pharmaceutical transaction information in 2019 through the pre-pandemic period in 2020, in its Cost Impact of California’s Drug Formulary – Two-Year Checkup research brief. California’s… [Read more]
Insurity Releases “Workers’ Comp Industry Trends” Report Based on Valen Data Consortium Insights
Hartford, CT – Insurity recently released its Workers’ Compensation Industry Trends report. The exclusive research reveals four converging trends related to COVID-19 that are expected to impact insurers’ portfolios in 2021. The study was based on $60 billion in workers’ compensation policy and claims data from Insurity’s proprietary Valen Data Consortium from Q1 through Q3… [Read more]
New NCCI Report: Workers Compensation Excess Loss Development
Boca Raton, FL – NCCI recently announced the release of a new report, Workers Compensation Excess Loss Development, which examines development patterns by size of loss. The brief is an update to the prior NCCI studies, completed in 2007, 2011, and 2016. An additional four calendar years of large loss experience are added to the… [Read more]
National Medicare Secondary Payer Network Elects Dan Anders President
Delray Beach, FL – Tower MSA Partners Chief Compliance Officer Daniel M. Anders, Esq. MSCC, CMSP has been elected president of the National Medicare Secondary Payer Network (MSPN). Formerly the National Alliance of Medicare Set-Aside Professionals (NAMSAP), the non-profit association exclusively addresses the issues and challenges of the Medicare Secondary Payer Statute and its impact… [Read more]
CWCI: CA Surpasses 103,000 COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claims for AY 2020
Oakland, CA – The monthly count of COVID-19 job injury claims reported to the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) soared to a record 32,549 cases in December, bringing the total number of COVID-19 claims for accident year (AY) 2020 to 103,712, or more than one out of every six workers’ comp claims with a… [Read more]
Dr. Jewel Mullen to Discuss Health Equity, COVID-19 Vaccinations at WCRI Conference
Cambridge, MA – The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) recently announced that Dr. Jewel Mullen will be delivering the opening keynote on health equity and COVID-19 vaccinations on the second day of the Institute’s 37th Annual Issues & Research Conference, which is being held virtually March 23 and 24, 2021. Dr. Mullen is an internist,… [Read more]
NCCI Releases Two Reports on Remote Work, Telecommuting and Workers’ Compensation
Boca Raton, FL – NCCI recently announced the release of two new reports that examine remote work before, during, and after the pandemic, and dive into classification of telecommuters and potential implications of an increase in telecommuting on workers’ comp. The first report is actually the second part of NCCI’s Quarterly Economics Briefing (QEB) for… [Read more]