2024’s Biggest News
Welcome to 2025 and Workers’ Comp Executive’s 35th year covering the California workers’ comp industry. Here is our annual review of the top workers’ comp stories that made headlines last …
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Changes For Contractor Workers’ Comp Exemption
The Contractors State Licensing Board’s board of directors approved seeking legislation to reestablish a limited exemption from the requirement to carry workers’ comp coverage for all licensees except those holding a C-39 Roofing classification. The proposed reintroduction of the exemption, which the board previously backed eliminating, will also be accompanied by new large penalties for …
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Multiple Parties in SIBTF Fraud
Physician Kevin Tien Do appeared in federal court last week and pled guilty to a two-count federal indictment related to a scheme to defraud the state’s Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund (SIBTF) program. Still uncharged and unnamed in the case is an alleged co-conspirator, who published reports say is Orange County Superior Court Judge Israel …
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2025 Workers’ Comp Assessments
The Department of Industrial Relations has released its assessments for 2025. The charges are added to employer’s workers’ comp policies, and self-insureds are assessed differently. DIR says the total cost …
Broker Enhances Relationship
Dear Editor: I have been an insurance broker for 27 years, during which time I have dealt with the problematic California business environment and insurance marketplace. Your publication gives me ideas about where industry segments are headed, indications of overall marketplace conditions, and, importantly, California’s legal environment. You recently published articles about …
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Ninth Circuit Interprets AMA Guides Application In USL&H Case
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal says an injured longshoreman with hearing loss in one ear and bilateral tinnitus is only due benefits for the actual loss of hearing suffered on the job and cannot obtain a bilateral rating under the AMA Guides. However, the court left unanswered the question of whether the worker’s tinnitus …
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Injured Brakeman Gets New Trial & Expert Witness
The Second District Court of Appeal ordered a new trial in Terrence Richard’s negligence lawsuit against Union Pacific Railroad company after being injured in a fall from the train where he was working as a brakeman. The second time around Richards will also be able to call his expert witness who was originally blocked from …
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Roofer Gets Second Chance In Premium Dispute
A California employer will get a second chance to fight a collection effort for allegedly unpaid workers’ comp premium. The employer failed to respond to the complaint and summons in a timely manner but claimed it confused the dates for responding with a later date for a case management conference that was listed in the …
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