Workers' compensation: claims administration.

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment, and requires an employer to provide, or pay for all reasonable costs of, medical services necessary to care for, or relieve, work-related injuries. Existing law prohibits a person, firm, or corporation, other than an insurer admitted to transact workers' compensation insurance in this state, to contract to administer claims of self-insured employers as a 3rd-party administrator without a certificate of consent. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the above provision.