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NEWS RELEASES ARCHIVES
2005

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 June 2005  
   
June 7, 2005 INJURED WORKERS, ADVOCATES RELEASE PROFITS DATA: CALL FOR 27% PREMIUM CUT, EXCESS PROFITS CAP SACRAMENTO – VotersInjuredatWork.org and the California Applicants Attorneys Association (CAAA) today released new data on excess profits by workers compensation insurers and called for a cap on excess insurance company profits and a 27% cut in workers’ compensation insurance premiums for July 2005...read more
   
June 2, 2005 “[New York Attorney General] investigators allege that AIG defrauded California by engaging in a scheme to mischaracterize premiums it charged customers who bought its workers' compensation insurance.” “Nine AIG affiliates licensed to operate in California sold $1 billion worth of workers' compensation premiums in 2004, making it the market leader with a 6.79 percent share of such business.” “When insurers sell workers' compensation coverage, they pay higher premium taxes and pay extra monies into state funds called special assessment funds"...read more
    
 May 2005  
   
May 27, 2005 INJURED WORKERS, ADVOCATES FILE LAWSUIT TO STOP GOVERNOR’S PERMANENT DISABILITY COMPENSATION CUTS IN CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT: Permanently Disabled Workers’ Compensation Cuts “Unconstitutional” SAN FRANCISCO – VotersInjuredatWork.org and attorneys for injured workers filed a lawsuit today in the California Supreme Court challenging the governor’s deep cuts in injured workers’ permanent disability compensation...read more
May 27, 2005 INJURED WORKERS, ADVOCATES FILE LAWSUIT TO STOP GOVERNOR’S PERMANENT DISABILITY COMPENSATION CUTS IN CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT: Permanently Disabled Workers’ Compensation Cuts “Unconstitutional” SAN FRANCISCO – VotersInjuredatWork.org and attorneys for injured workers filed a lawsuit today in the California Supreme Court challenging the governor’s deep cuts in injured workers’ permanent disability compensation...read more
May 19, 2005 INJURED WORKERS & THEIR ADVOCATES CALL ON INSURANCE COMMISSIONER TO "PUBLICLY ADMONISH" INSURANCE INDUSTRY FOR QUASHING ITS OWN STUDY: Governor Takes All Permanent Disability Compensation From 37% Of Injured Workers; Governor's Cuts Average "In Excess of 50%"...read more
 
May 12, 2005 NEW INSURANCE INDUSTRY STUDY: GOVERNOR TAKES ALL PERMANENT DISABILITY COMPENSATION FROM 37% OF INJURED WORKERS Governor’s Cuts Average “In Excess of 50%”; Injured Workers Call for Governor to Change “Fatally-flawed” Schedule SAN FRANCISCO - VotersInjuredatWork.org and the California Applicants’ Attorneys Association said findings from a new study conducted by the insurance industry’s own ratings bureau’s expert confirm three earlier independent studies showing Governor Schwarzenegger’s new permanent disability compensation schedule eliminates or sharply reduces compensation for permanently injured workers...read more
May 1, 2005 Another one Bites the Dust. Doc Leaves System Due to “Dramatic Denials of All Medical Services.” Dr. Scott Schniderman of Monterey, CA sites the increasing challenges to providing reasonable care in an open letter to his patients.  Automatic denial of medical services, redundant paperwork, and reduced compensation for providing services has driven this doctor from the system. Read Dr. Scott Schniderman’s letter here...read more
 April 2005  
 
April 27, 2005 INJURED WORKERS & THEIR ATTORNEYS URGE SENATE TO REJECT WORKERS’ COMP. DIRECTOR SACRAMENTO, CA - VotersInjuredatWork.org., a statewide political group fighting for the rights of voters injured on the job, injured workers and their attorneys today urged the State Senate Rules committee to reject Andrea Hoch’s confirmation as Administrative Director of the State Division of Workers’ Compensation...read more
   
April 25, 2005 INJURED WORKERS CALL FOR CAP ON EXCESS INSURANCE PROFITS: $6 BILLION FROM CARE AND COMPENSATION CUTS SAN FRANCISCO, CA – VotersInjuredatWork.org and the California Applicants Attorneys Association (CAAA) today called for a cap on excess insurance company profits and a 27% cut in workers’ compensation insurance premiums for July 2005 to reflect billions of dollars in cuts to injured workers’ medical and disability benefits...read more
   
April 20, 2005 INJURED WORKERS, LABOR PROTEST 1 YEAR OF MISERY, GOVERNOR’S BROKEN PROMISE Call on Senate to Reject Governor’s Appointee Who Cut Compensation SACRAMENTO & LOS ANGELES - On the 1-year anniversary of the governor’s signing his workers’ compensation law, hundreds of injured workers picketed and protested his broken promise to protect injured workers at the governor’s offices in Sacramento and Los Angeles...read more
 FEBRUARY 2005  
Feb 23, 2005 “BLOCK HOCH”: Injured Workers, Doctors, Experts Make Case Against Confirming Workers’ Comp. Director VotersInjuredatWork.org., a statewide political group fighting for the rights of voters injured on the job, announced today that it will hold a news conference on Wednesday to make the case for blocking Andrea Hoch’s confirmation as Administrative Director of the State Division of Workers’ Compensation. Injured workers, doctors and experts will demonstrate how Hoch has taken away injured workers’ rights, care, and compensation...read more
   
Feb 15, 2005 WORKERS’ COMPENSATION INSURANCE CARRIERS’ PROFITS UP 25% to 36%: Denial of Medical Care and Compensation Enriches Insurers, Causing Pain and Suffering for Californians Injured on the Job SACRAMENTO - Fourth quarter and 2004 annual earnings statements from leading California workers compensation insurance carriers are coming in, and profits are up by 25% to 36% over 2003 – and 2003 was already the most profitable year on record. Zenith and American Financial Group showed sharply higher profits from California workers’ compensation insurance...read more
    
Feb 6, 2005 New Pinch on workers' comp Guidelines intended to curb abuse prompting gripes that treatment is being unfairly refused - Workers' compensation routinely used to pay for Betty Elder's twice- weekly acupuncture sessions, treatments that brought her temporary relief from arm and neck pains that she says resulted from a fall suffered on the job more than two years ago...read more
JANUARY 2005  
    
Jan 19, 2005 INJURED WORKERS, ATTORNEYS CHALLENGE GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER’S PROPOSAL CUTTING INJURED WORKERS’ DISABILITY COMPENSATION BY TWO-THIRDS SACRAMENTO – VotersInjuredatWork.org and attorneys for injured workers filed a lawsuit today challenging the governor’s authority to chop injured workers’ permanent disability compensation by up to two-thirds. A complaint seeking to block drastic reductions in the already-meager compensation injured workers receive was filed in Sacramento Superior Court...read more
   
Jan 6, 2005 Bill Aims to Regulate Workers' Comp Rates The legislation is likely to be vetoed by the governor, who killed a similar plan last year. SACRAMENTO — Maintaining that workers' compensation insurers are gouging employers, an influential state senator introduced legislation Wednesday that would give regulators the power to set premiums on workers' comp policies...read more
   
Jan 6, 2005 Lawmaker targets workers' comp costs STATE PANEL WOULD SET RATES, MAKE INSURERS PASS ON SAVINGS In renewed bid to get insurers to further lower the rates they charge for workers' compensation insurance, a state senator Wednesday proposed creating a panel to set rates...read more
   
Jan 6, 2005 Work comp bill could limit rates Insurers will oppose regulating premiums Charging that insurance companies have pocketed most of the benefits of recent workers' compensation reforms, a key lawmaker in Sacramento yesterday unveiled a proposal to regulate workers' comp rates...read more
   
Jan 5, 2005 THE STATE OF THE STATE’S INJURED WORKERS: “DESPERATE” Gov. Schwarzenegger Didn’t “Fix” Workers Comp., Injured Workers Can’t Get Care or Compensation, Rates Still Too High SACRAMENTO – Injured workers, their doctors and advocates today charged that Governor Schwarzenegger did not “fix” workers’ compensation insurance as promised in last year’s State of the State address. “The state of California’s injured workers is desperate, worse than at any time in the past thirty years,” said California Applicants’ Attorneys Association (CAAA) President David Schwartz. “No previous governor, not Pete Wilson, nor George Deukmejian, much less Jerry nor Pat Brown, nor Gray Davis would ever have cut injured workers’ compensation by 70 percent...read more
   
Jan 5, 2005

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 THE STATE OF THE STATE'S INJURED WORKERS: Doctors, Injured Workers, Experts Examine What Gov. Schwarzenegger "Fixed" in Workers Comp., Introduce Insurance Rate Regulation Bill In his 2004 State of the State address, Gov. Schwarzenegger said he would "fix" workers' comp. As the governor prepares to offer up what he will "fix" in 2005, injured workers, doctors, Senator Richard Alarcon and other experts will report on the State of the State's Injured Workers...read more
 
 
 
 
 

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