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COVID-19 Driven Recession Distorts Second Quarter Experience

California’s workers’ comp actuaries are recommending against using the industry’s second-quarter experience in the rate-making process for 2021 advisory pure premium rates due to the gross distortions in the data from the Wuhan China sourced COVID-19 pandemic. Most notable were anomalies in claim reporting, reserving, and resolution of claims that are now running counter to … Read More »

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Will There Be Depositions Of Lara & Henley?

The question is, will Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and special counsel Bryant Henley be forced to submit to depositions concerning their representations and intentions during settlement negotiations with the State Compensation Insurance Fund? The industry will soon find out. The State Fund and the California Department of Insurance are headed back to court this week … Read More »

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Farm Labor Contractor Indicted

The father, daughter team behind a Merced farm labor contractor – Agriculture Services Inc. –are due back in court next month to face five felony counts for allegedly defrauding State Compensation Insurance Fund out of some $2.5 million in workers’ comp premium. The pair is alleged to have kept two sets of books to hide … Read More »

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CDI’s Authority Limited In Independent Contractors Disputes

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Motion To Vacate Applied Underwriters’ CIC Conservation Denied

Applied Underwriters’ affiliate California Insurance Company suffered a second loss in less than a week concerning its conservation by the California Department of Insurance. The carrier lost its bid to … Read More »

State Fund Gets New CDI Review Of Tier Modifiers

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge is sending a dispute over the legality of State Compensation Insurance Fund’s tier modifiers back to the California Department of Insurance. The tier modifier dispute is the same as in the A-Brite Blind and Drapery case that is now pending before a Sacramento court (for past coverage see State … Read More »

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DIR Workers’ Comp or AB 5 Enforcement

The Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DSLE) says it is not pursuing employers with workers’ comp coverage that is nonexistent or inadequate to meet their obligation under Labor Code section 3700. The state is not enforcing the requirement for employers to have workers’ comp insurance. Instead, DSLE is focusing its enforcement … Read More »

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Brokers Placing Clients In Unlicensed Programs Can Lose Licenses

The California Department of Insurance says it has a range of options for sanctioning brokers that place clients in an illegal or unlicensed workers’ comp program. The question arose after … Read More »