California Division of Workers' Compensation Announces Temporary Total Disability Rates for 2025 By Lonce Lamonte, adjustercom editor using DWC Newsline's News Release Dated October 16th 2024 - October 16, 2024 The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announces that the 2025 minimum and maximum temporary total disability (TTD) rates will increase on January 1, 2025. The minimum TTD rate will increase from $242.86 to $252.03, and the maximum TTD rate will increase from $1,619.15 to $1,680.29 per week. Labor Code Section 4453(a) (10) requires the maximum and minimum weekly earnings upon which TTD is based be increased by an amount equal to percentage increase in the State Average Weekly Wage (SAWW) as compared to the prior year. The SAWW is defined as the average weekly wage paid to employees covered by unemployment insurance as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor for California for the 12 months ending March 31 in the year preceding the injury. In the 12 months ending March 31, 2024, the SAWW increase from $1,642 to $1,704—an increase of 3.77588%. Read More

NFL Hit With $4.7 Billion Damages in Sunday Ticket Trial: Claims Journal   June 28, 2024The National Football League was hit with about $4.7 billion in damages — which stands to be tripled to $14 billion under federal law — after losing a jury trial over anticompetitive features of its Sunday Ticket broadcast package.

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California Division of Workers' Compensation Posts Additional Adjustments to Official Medical Fee Schedule (Hospital Outpatient Departments/Ambulatory Surgical Centers) By Lonce Lamonte, adjustercom editor using DWC Newsline's News Release Dated October 9th 2024 - October 9, 2024 The Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) issued an Order dated October 1, 2024 adjusting the Hosp... Read More

California Division of Workers' Compensation Issues Notice of 2nd 15-Day Public Comment Period for Rulemaking Action to Adopt Revisions to the Official Medical Fee Schedule (Pharmaceuticals) By Lonce Lamonte, adjustercom editor using DWC Newsline's News Release Dated October 7th 2024 - October 7, 2024 Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has issued a notice of modification to text of proposed amendments to the ... Read More

California Division of Workers' Compensation Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee Meeting Scheduled for October 16, 2024 By Lonce Lamonte, adjustercom editor using DWC Newsline's News Release Dated October 3rd 2024 - October 3, 2024 The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 1... Read More

Restaurant Industry Set to Confront Workers' Comp Challenge with New Food and Beverage Insurance Rating Classification By Jorge Alexandria - June 28, 2024 I sat in on an in-person Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) seminar that covered a Read More

Janice Thorner Levy has gone to the top in workers’ compensation claims and with a fine avocation which is fun and fabulous By Lonce Lamonte - October 20, 2024 Janice Thorner worked as a workers’ compensation claims adjuster back in the day at Industrial Indemnity in the Wilshire dis... Read More