Inland Empire Consumer Alert: Beware of Telephone Scams

Inland Empire Consumer Alert: Beware of Telephone Scams by Charles Cleveland, Attorney-Certified Specialist Workers Compensation Law and Real Estate Broker Over the past year, several of my present and past clients in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties have contacted me regarding a variety of telephone scams. Some are Robo-calls but most of them involved imposters…

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YOUR WORK COMP BRIEFING April 1, 2019

“The World of Cumulative Trauma” We reported in January that, in a report published last December, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners showed average profits for Workers’ Compensation premiums in California rose to 12% in 2017, up from 8.5% in 2016. Nationally, the average profit was 7.9%, up from 4.6% in 2016. The WCIRB also…

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Workers Compensation: Legislation Update from CAAA

  Over 2,500 bills were introduced in the legislature before this year’s deadline. As usual, there are a number of bills related to workers’ compensation. And, as usual, CAAA has jumped into the fray with our own ideas for fixing the system. We mentioned last week that we wouldn’t take Governor Jerry Brown’s veto as…

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Workers’ Compensation Return To Work Program AB-553

Workers’ Compensation Return To Work Program AB-553  If you have received a supplemental job displacement voucher for vocational rehabilitation document in 2017 or expect to get one next year, this is important news for you about the Workers’ Compensation Return To Work Program. The Workers’ Compensation Return-To-Work Program fund benefit currently is $5000 if you unable…

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