BURBANK - There's plenty of room for improvement in workers' comp claims handling practices, according to the Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC). In 1997 state auditors issued nearly 10,000 administrative penalty assessments to claims administrators. Totals were nearly $1,270,000."Again this year, we are finding unacceptably high amounts of unpaid compensation (owed) to injured workers, late payment of benefits, and failure to notify employees of their rights to benefits in a timely manner,"
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