According to the California Department of Industrial Relations, California had 680,152 workers' compensation claims in 2023, based upon first reports of injuries. This translates to 3.6 worker ...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The decline in opioid use in California workers’ compensation has outpaced the decline among the state’s overall population according to a new California Workers’ ...

Workers’ compensation is considered a no-fault insurance system. Basically, it is intended to help injured workers get financial compensation for their lost wages and medical expenses if they are ...

A surge in California Cumulative Trauma (CT) claims has pushed Employers Holdings to a steep earnings decline, with the workers comp specialist posting financial results that stand in sharp contrast ...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) study offers some of the first comprehensive data on the use of Functional Restoration Programs (FRPs) to ...

For the third consecutive year, both the number and frequency of work injury claims reported by California’s public self-insured employers declined last year, even as total paid and incurred workers’ ...

Psychotherapeutic & Neurological Drugs account for less than one-third of one percent of all prescriptions dispensed to California injured workers but due to their high average cost per prescription ...