Posts for January 7, 2005

Via WorkCompCentral.Com:
"Is California reform going too far? Though barely mentioned in his State of the State speech Wednesday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to wrap the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board into one, nine-member commission has many in the industry alarmed and concerned that the technical specialty needed to resolve policy rendering...

Responding to Sen. Alarcon's call for rate regulation, Insurance industry spokesman says Sam Sorich says: "Workers' compensation rates today are falling and the future looks even brighter as more insurers enter the California market and the reform package is fully implemented," Sorich said. "The reforms not only stabilized a once-turbulent system, they reversed a devastating trend of rate hikes that were suffocating California's business...