california workers compensation – Page 7

In Los Angeles, there is something known as the Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP), a program that allows retirement-age police officers and firefighters to collect their pensions while continuing to work and receive paychecks, essentially getting twice the pay for the last few years of service. In theory, it makes sense. It allows for precincts…

Multiple Body Parts Claims – How Fraudsters Are Abusing California’s Workers’ Comp Laws

Sep 25, 2018

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California workers’ compensation claims involving multiple body parts is on the rise, according to a recent Los Angeles Times data analysis report. The report showed that claims involving five or more body parts – which, up until the mid-2000s, has been the least common – have now become the most common in the state of…