Temporary and Permanent disability payments to California’s workers’ comp claimants will increase by 3.8% effective January 1st, 2025. That translates to employers paying a weekly maximum payout of $1,680.29 compared …
Bills that would exempt some temporary disability benefits from the 104-week cap on TD benefits and another to amend the medical provider network (MPN) notification and provider listing standards easily cleared the Assembly Insurance Committee. Both measures are pending review by the Assembly Appropriations Committee this morning, as is a separate measure to create an …
The 2023 minimum and maximum weekly benefit rates for temporary total disability (TD) and permanent total disability (PD) are increasing by 5.159% for 2023. The weekly minimum for will be …
The Fourth District Court of Appeal upheld an injured worker’s convictions for multiple counts of perjury and fraud but reduced his sentence by removing a year of court-ordered probation due to recent changes in state law. The convictions stemmed from the claimant working for another employer while collecting temporary total disability benefits, and he also …
The state’s minimum and maximum temporary total disability (TTD) rates for workers’ comp claims are increasing effective Jan. 1, 2017. The minimum TTD rate will increase from $169.26 to $175.88, and the maximum TTD rate will increase from $1,128.43 to $1,172.57 per week, the Division of Workers’ Compensation announced. The TTD rates are increasing in …
California is on the path to raising minimum wage rates 50% to $15 per hour and experts agree that the change will have a significant impact on employers’ workers’ comp costs. The cost implications are greatest for those with large numbers of minimum wage workers, but the impact will not necessarily stop just with them. …
by William J. Armstrong, Esq. & Owen C. Fennern, Esq. In our system, it has been common for an employer to overpay temporary disability, due to no fault of the payer. As one illustration, if weekly indemnity is being paid pending an AME or QME, it often times takes that doctor 30-60 days to …
On Jan. 1, 2013, the minimum weekly TTD rate will increase to $160 and the maximum TTD rate will increase to $1,066.72, according to a notice from the Division of Workers’ Compensation. Last year’s minimum and maximum were $151.57 and $1010.50 respectively. In addition to the TTD rates, in the 12 months ended March 31, …