Once an insurance carrier is notified of a work injury, it is required by law to promptly investigate the injury and determine whether the claim is compensable within 21 days under Section 406.1 of ...

Workers’ compensation stress claims can be, well, stressful. Both the employee who has filed the claim and the employer who must handle it experience frustrations. Also, stress claims (also called ...

Workers’ compensation claims are costly and can drag on for years. The average cost of a lost time claim (indemnity and medical only) in California has increased from $54,712 in 2018 to $58,843 in ...

Workers' compensation insurance, required by law in all states but Texas, provides benefits to employees who are injured at work. As workers' comp fraud grows, both employers and legitimately injured ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Corinne Spencer and Antwoin Wall are senior and associate counsel, respectively, at Pearlman, Brown & Wax, LLP. Views are the authors' own. In California, workers' compensation claims often lead to ...

The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in wide-ranging litigation involving public health, health care, education, criminal justice, commerce, and virtually every aspect of modern life. Employment ...

Les Masterson is a deputy editor and insurance analyst at Forbes Advisor. He has been a journalist, reporter, editor and content creator for more than 25 years. He has covered insurance for a decade, ...