DWC Audit Report Shows More of the Same From Industry, Self-Insureds

SAN FRANCISCO -- Insurance company claims offices generally remain well below the bar of what the Division of Workers' Compensation considers acceptable claims paying and benefit notification efforts, according to the agency's report on its 1998 audit efforts.In what has become an annual roasting session of insurers, self-insureds and third party administrators, the DWC reported that the number of fines and the dollar amount of fines was down from last year. However, the reason for the drop was that th