Eliminate rewards for unwanted behaviors to reduce liens

California workers' comp advisors say the excessive number of liens show where the workers' comp system should be improved.

In a draft report, the Commission on Health & Safety and Workers' Compensation made a number of recommendations, including:

Consider reinstating a $100 filing fee to discourage frivolous claims.
Adopt explicit fee schedules where gaps or ambiguities foster frequent disputes.
Establish an administrative system for fee schedule dispute resolution with limited judicial review.
Adjudicate medical treatment authorization disputes expeditiously.
Amend existing statute and regulation to effectively deter premature lien filings.
Require lien filers to accurately identify themselves and their relationship to the original owner of the alleged debt and to provide documentation of that relationship upon demand.
Require accurate representations of facts in claims filed for liens.

February 7, 2011

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