Readers may remember that former City Controller Wendy Greuel was critical of the workers’ compensation spending and policies of the City of Los Angeles after conducting a review last year. Well, that criticism was recently echoed in two recent audits led by current...
Workers compensation is an important asset for employees to have access to when they become disabled. Professional athletes, of course, are in a different category than industrial and construction workers and the like, but they also make use of the same protections....
Los Angles readers have likely heard the news about the 51-year-old Los Angeles International Airport baggage worker, who died of a heart attack. The incident reportedly occurred as the employee was driving a baggage tug to pull a dolly at a ramp station. He...
Last week, news broke that actress Tina Fey was being targeted for failing to pay for workers’ compensation for her staff between November 2012 and February 2, 2014. Earlier this week, the vice president of Robertson Taylor–Fey’s insurance broker–cleared her name by...
A recent article in Insurance Journal pointed out that, while 2012 was a rather busy year in workers’ compensation legislation–with a major reform to state law having been passed–2013 was, by comparison, a rather slow year. This year, workers’ comp legislation...