Registration Is Open: CWCIs 61st Annual Meeting — April 3, 2025 Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, Sacramento
The California Workers’ Compensation Institute is pleased to announce that registration is now open for our 61st Annual Meeting, which for the first time will be held in Sacramento on Thursday, April 3 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts (aka, “the Sofia”).
The theme of the 2025 meeting will be “The Past Is Preview” an examination of how changes made to the California workers’ compensation system over the past quarter century have led to unprecedented stability and set the stage for the years ahead. Guest speakers and Institute staff will assess the current state of the California economy, review current and upcoming CWCI research, and discuss the legal and political issues, challenges, and opportunities facing our industry as we move into the future.
The 2025 program will be presented in three sessions:
- Session 1: Sarah Bohn, PhD, Vice President of Research and Senior Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, returns to our Annual Meeting to offer an update on the California economy, and CWCI Vice President of Research Eva Davinia Loaeza Albino, PhD will preview Part II of the Institute’s research series on the impact of medical inflation on California workers’ compensation.
- Session 2: CWCI President Alex Swedlow will present results from recent Institute research and provide an overview of the research agenda for 2025. Alex will be joined by Kurt T. Hegmann, MD, MPH, Director of the University of Utah’s Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health and Editor-In-Chief of the ACOEM Practice Guidelines, to discuss the challenges of evaluating medical intervention in the absence of medical evidence.
- Session 3: CWCI General Counsel and Senior Vice-President of Claims Sara Widener-Brightwell and Chief Operating Officer Gideon Baum will discuss the legal issues likely to be addressed by the courts in the year ahead. Gideon and Sara will review the 2025 workers’ compensation political landscape, followed by a panel discussion featuring legislative insiders.
The Sofia, located at 2700 Capitol Ave in downtown Sacramento is conveniently located just a block and a half off I-80 (the Cap City Freeway), between 27th St. and 28th St. A Continental breakfast will be served prior to the meeting, with a luncheon provided at noon. Additional details on hotel accommodations and parking information will be forthcoming.
CWCI’s 61st Annual Meeting is free to CWCI member company employees, CWCI Emeritus, regulators, and the press; $399 for all others, but all attendees must pre-register. To do so, please access the link here. If you have questions, call CWCI at 510-251-9470 or email Perla at pmedrano@cwci.org.