Just Last Week Unemployment Claims in California Declined By data from the Department of Labor - September 11, 2025 First filings for unemployment benefits in California dropped last week. The U.S. Department of Labor said this was compared with the week prior. New jobless claims fell to 37,470 in the week ending September 6th.  That was down from 38,816 the prior week, the Labor Department stated. Read More

California Supreme Court reaffirms Workers' Compensation Laws as exclusive remedy By the adjustercom staff - September 1, 2025 In August of 2025, the California Supreme Court reaffirmed that workers’ compensation laws are the exclusive remedy for employee injuries. The Court’s ruling was that an employee’s tort claims against a utilization review company and a doctor performing a mandatory utilization review were preempted. The Court upheld the long-affirmed regulation and reality for employees that the Workers Compensation Act (WCA) construes liberally in favor of awarding workers’ compensation, not in permitting civil litigation. Read More

Divison of Workers' Compensation Posts Additional Adjustments to Official Medical Fee Schedule (Hospital Outpatient Departments/Ambulatory Surgical Centers) By Lonce Lamonte, editor, editing the CA DWC Newsline news release - August 29, 2025 The Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) issued an Order dated July 1, 2025 adjusting the Hospital Outpatient Departments and Ambulatory Surgical Centers section of the Official Medical Fee Schedule (OMFS) to conform to the quarterly changes in the Medicare payment system as required by Labor Code section 5307.1. Subsequently, on July 25, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued revised fee schedule documents for the October update. Read More

California Division of Workers' Compensation Posts Adjustments to Official Medical Fee Schedule for Pathology and Clinical Laboratory By Lonce Lamonte, editor, editing the CA DWC Newsline news release - August 29, 2025 The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has posted an order adjusting the Pathology and Clinical Laboratory section of the Official Medical Fee Schedule (OMFS) to conform to relevant 2025 quarter 3 changes in the Medicare payment system as required by Labor Code section 5307.1. Read More

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August 25, 2025 - California Division of Workers' Compensation issues Notice of Public Hearing on September 26, 2025 for Proposed Evidence-Based Update and Adoption to the Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule

August 20, 2025 - The health consequences of being out of work for a claimant can be worse than smoking

August 8, 2025 - California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara urges evacuees from Canyon and Gifford fires to inquire immediately about insurance reimbursement for evacuation costs

July 30, 2025 - California Division of Workers' Compensation posts update to proposed Utilization Review regulations

July 23, 2025 - Judge sides with California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, upholding authority to protect consumers and stabilize the California FAIR Plan

July 23, 2025 - California awards $8.6 million to local prosecutors to enforce workers’ rights

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