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Updated 5/4/2004; 4:14:41 PM
Friday, April 30, 2004

Auditors Criticize Effort to Reduce Insurance Fraud
The state has fallen short in pinning down the extent of workers' comp abuse in California, a report finds.
Los Angeles Times
By Marc Lifsher, Times Staff Writer
April 30, 2004

A Bureau of State Audits report released Thursday criticized the state Insurance and Industrial Relations departments for failing to implement a law cracking down on workers' compensation insurance fraud....

The audit was released on the same day that ratings experts took their first crack at estimating savings employers may see from the recent overhaul of the state's insurance system for workplace injuries....

FRANK NEUHAUSER, A UC BERKELEY RESEARCHER, projected that the workers' comp bills passed last year and earlier this month would reduce the cost of the state's system for providing benefits to injured workers by about one-third by 2006.

[Another story on this topic, also quoting Professor Neuhauser, appeared in the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/30/BUGT66DB0L1.DTL&;type=printable">San Francisco Chronicle</a>]
 

Source: UC Berkeley in the News

 

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