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A small San Francisco circus tried to do right by its workers Now it may be going out of business

A small San Francisco circus tried to do right by its workers. Now it may be going out of business Ironically, if Circus Bella had just waited to reclassify its workers, it might not be in this mess. Lily Janiak April 26, 2021Updated: April 26, 2021, 7:02 pm Circus Bella Executive Director Abigail Munn does plank exercises at her home in San Francisco. Munn says her 13-year-old circus company is on the verge of going out of business because of a combination of threats: the pandemic, AB5 and high workers’ comp payments that because of bureaucratic rules can’t be reduced, even though the company isn’t performing. Photo: Marlena Sloss, Special to The Chronicle

Rosenberg: Fixing MPN System a Humanitarian Issue| Workers Compensation News

Friday, April 23, 2021 | WorkCompCentral published a blog post by workers’ compensation defense attorney Gregory Grinberg critiquing AB 1465, a bill that would expand access to medical care by creating a statewide medical provider network. Daniel Rosenberg Ignoring Grinberg’s ad hominem attack on Sen. Lorena Gonzalez, his argument is that MPNs lead to higher quality and reduced costs, and therefore should be maintained without free-market competition. The problem is that his points are empirically false: MPNs increase costs for employers and lead to worse medical care for their injured workers. The California Workers’ Compensation Institute did a comprehensive study of MPNs and found that they generated a negligible 2% in savings. Those savings were more than offset by added frictional costs to the system, as a Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine study concluded. Worse still, a recent study by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau de

California Workers Comp Committee Votes for 2 7% Higher Pure Premium Filing

California Workers’ Comp Committee Votes for 2.7% Higher Pure Premium Filing April 21, 2021 The governing committee of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has voted to authorize the WCIRB to submit a Sept. 1, 2021 pure premium rate filing to the California Insurance Commissioner that are on average 2.7% above the average approved Jan. 1, 2021 advisory pure premium rates. Included in the proposed increase is a 1.4% overall estimated cost impact of recent changes adopted by the Division of Workers’ Compensation to the Medical-Legal Fee Schedule and the Evaluation and Management Section of the Official Medical Fee Schedule. WCIRB Executive Vice President and Chief Actuary Dave Bellusci noted that to reflect the unique impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on exposure and losses, the WCIRB excluded all claims arising from a COVID-19 diagnosis from the analysis, refined projection methodologies to adjust for distortions c

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