Deadline for California Workers' Compensation Lien Claimants to File Labor Code Section 4903.05(c) Declaration Approaching Fast By Lonce LaMon and the California Department of Industrial Relations - June 26, 2017 The California DIR's Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is reminding lien claimants that they are required to file a declaration for any lien filed between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2016 for which a filing fee was paid. Labor Code section 4903.05(c) provides: lien claimants shall have until July 1, 2017. DWC recommends that lien claimants complete their submission by 5 p.m. on Friday, June 30th in order to ensure a timely filing.   Read More

Comp policy can be rescinded for material misrepresentations: Business Insurance  May 25, 2017 An insurer may retroactively rescind a workers compensation policy because the insured misrepresented employee activities on its application for a policy, a California appeals court ruled.   Dallas-based Southern Insurance Co. issued a workers comp insurance policy effective Jan. 1, 2009, to California-based concession trucking company EJ Distribution Corp. based on an application that indicated covered employees would not travel out of California or outside of a 200-miled radius.

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California Division of Workers' Compensation Posts Ethics Advisory Committee Annual Report for 2016 By Lonce LaMon and the California Department of Industrial Relations - June 23, 2017 p> The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has posted the 2016 ethics advisory committee's annual report on its website. The w... Read More

California Division of Workers' Compensation Announces Temporary Total Disability Rates for 2018 By Lonce LaMon and the California Department of Industrial Relations - June 21, 2017 The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announces that the 2018 minimum and maximum temporary to... Read More

Obit: Defense Attorney Mike Laughlin, 78, Died Saturday, June 17th 2017. He Was A Founding Partner Of Laughlin, Falbo, Levi & Moresi, Launching The Firm In 1985. Memorial Services Begin Thursday, June 22nd. By Lonce LaMon - June 20, 2017 Everything about Mike Laughlin felt so Irish and Catholic. He was educated at Notre Dame University.Â... Read More

Work Comp’s Retrospective Medical Bill Review And Payment Models Are Costing Payers, Providers And Injured Workers By Kenneth Farnham and Lonce LaMon, editor - May 4, 2017 To better illustrate the absurdity of the current, inefficient, misguided Workers’ Compensation bill... Read More

Christine Harris Moves To AIMs In Sacramento. She embarks on handling the claims for the judicial branch of the California workers' compensation program. By Lonce LaMon - June 1, 2017 Last month Christine Harris joined AIMs in Sacramento, California as a senior workers’ compensation ... Read More