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Are you looking for ways to reduce your WC costs? Going back to the basics in establishing and managing safety programs allows you to control your premiums through minimizing your losses. Here’s how. Get Management Behind It First and most importantly, the only way companies really control their workers’ compensation costs is to convince all [...]

The First 24 Hours After and Injury The moment an injury occurs, it initiates a sequence of events that can last for weeks or even months. But no matter how prolonged the recovery period, the first 24 hours after an injury are the most crucial. To respond effectively to an incident, the majority of the [...]

 Many business and home owners assume that the employees of others are covered by workers compensation and that the workers compensation coverage protects them (the business/home owner) from liability should some else’s employee be injured. This assumption is NOT correct! Although California, like most states, has what is called an “exclusive remedy” rule which mandates [...]

It has been said that the insurance market, specifically the workers’ compensation market is or will soon be hardening.  The biggest fear for most brokers is the same fear they have when the market softens or even remains stable, and that is that they will potentially lose clients.  The brokers that fear they will lose [...]

Since its creation in 1914, State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) has had two primary roles in the California Workers’ Compensation Market; (1) to make Workers’ Compensation coverage available to all employers in the state and (2) to compete in a fair manner with private carriers.  These roles are of supreme importance to California’s employers, especially [...]

CA workers compensation rates will rise in 2011.