for violating Labor Code section 3722 last year. The state’s Uninsured Employer Enforcement Program completed 41 inspections last year and had another 51 open at year-end. The program levied nearly $1.8 million in penalties against the employers found operating without valid workers’ comp coverage but collected only $243,310 of the total – a collection rate …
The question at hand is whether DoorDash’s operations fall under the web-based development classification 8859 or the more general clerical and telecommuter classes 8810 and 8871. But there is too a third possible classification if the contractors who actually deliver the food become reclassified as employees under AB5. DoorDash and the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating …
The California Department of Insurance fully adopted the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s September 1, 2023, regulatory filing. A separate decision on the advisory pure premium rates is still pending. …
Applied Underwriters’ California Insurance Company filed its opposition to a proposed rehabilitation plan. The California Department wants to force Applied to sell off its California operations and settle pending litigation …
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara won a second term to lead the California Department of Insurance with an easy 17-point margin of victory. The cities in coastal California and the Sacramento region delivered the win for the incumbent. Along the coast only Orange County and sparsely populated Del Norte County backed Republican Robert Howell – Orange …
A Los Angeles Superior Court appeared ready to reject Consumer Watchdog’s request for the court to force the California Department of Insurance to produce additional records under the California Public …
Individuals looking to get licensed as an insurance agent or broker and those who need to renew their license will have to take mandatory training on insurance fraud. The changes are mandated by a new law sponsored by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) and chaptered last month. And insurance professionals now need to include …
The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog will get its day in court this week as it presses Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and the California Department of Insurance to find and release more documents related to a public records act dispute. The group is seeking records of meetings and other documents pertaining to the neverending saga of …