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Governor Vetoes Controversial Workers’ Comp Bills

Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected a proposal to give the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board a role in overseeing employers’ compliance with California’s workplace health and safety laws. The Governor also rejected measures to boost salaries for California Department of Insurance investigators, another to expand 4850 leave to more public employees, and proposed changes to the California … Read More »

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New Laws For 2025

California employers and insurance companies face new laws impacting the state’s workers’ comp system operations in 2025 and beyond. Some bills were signed earlier in the session, but the fate of others wasn’t decided until the final days of the session. The most troublesome measures fell to Governor Gavin Newsom’s veto pen (see related story). … Read More »

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Governor Slow To Review Workers’ Comp Bills

Governor Gavin Newsom is slowly working through the hundreds of bills the California Legislature sent to his desk this year. The bills include controversial measures to create a new private sector workers’ comp presumption for farmworkers who succumb to heat-related injuries and another to require all private sector utilization review decisions to go through California-licensed … Read More »

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Legislative Update – Aug 2024

The California Legislature has just ten days to wrap up work on numerous workers’ comp bills that are still pending this session. Heading into the final stretch legislators are continuing to push measures that would create a private sector workers’ comp presumption for farmworkers, make it a crime to deny time off to seek treatment … Read More »

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Industry Has Lots To Say About Utilization Review Regulations

The Division of Workers’ Compensation’s proposal to update California’s utilization review regulations, toughen penalties for bad actors, and introduce a new PR-1 physician reporting form generated responses from over a dozen industry representatives. Much of the feedback was about the new PR-1 form, which would combine two existing forms into one new form, which many … Read More »

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Assembly Appropriations Hears Workers’ Comp Bills

The California Legislature is heading into the final weeks of the session with a handful of workers’ comp bills still pending before the August 31st deadline for passage. Hearings resume later this morning on workers’ comp bills, including one to address a proposed presumption for private sector employees and another to make it a crime … Read More »

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New Notice Requirements for Employees

A new law requires employers to notify employees of their right to attorney representation if they are injured on the job. Employers must add this to the employee notifications that are already required. The bill also requires the notifications to explain how attorney fees are paid in the workers’ comp system. Governor Gavin Newsom signed … Read More »

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Assembly Nixes Proposed WCAB Fix

The Legislature’s response to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May Revise would restore funding to some programs slated for cuts, including programs overseen by the Department of Industrial Relations, but it rejects a budget trailer bill to give the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board some breathing room. The proposal passed by the Assembly Budget Committee maintains funding for … Read More »

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