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Lyft Settles Misclassification Lawsuit, Uber and Others Fight On

The California Attorney General, the California Labor Commissioner, and the city attorneys for San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles announced a $272.5 million settlement with Lyft covering employee misclassifications before the passage of Proposition 22. The settlement does not impact the ongoing enforcement actions against Uber, Rasier, LLC; Raiser-CA LLC; or Portier LLC. The … Read More »

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Classification Changes For Computer & Cell Phone Stores

The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Classification and Rating Committee (C&R) is backing a classification change that would combine retail and wholesale operations that sell computers with retail and wholesale cell phone stores into a single class. The proposed changes would also move any outside sales operations in class 8062 to 8742, which is the … Read More »

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Rowing Club Challenges Reclassification

A nonprofit organization that runs competitive youth rowing programs is asking the Department of Insurance Administrative Law Bureau to intervene in a reclassification dispute with its workers’ comp carrier and the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. The organization’s operations were moved into a class with a pure premium rate more than 2.5 times the rate … Read More »

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Classification Changes Coming

The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Classification and Rating Committee approved a plan that could have employers with payroll assigned to classification 2102 covering fruit and vegetable dehydrating operations being combined with employers that perform preserving and pickling operations. The move, if approved by Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, would take effect September 1, 2026. The … Read More »

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Surface Mining, Ore Milling Operations To Remain Separate Classes

The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau says the workers’ comp data underlying classifications covering employers performing surface mining (1122) and ore milling (1452) have low credibility for ratemaking purposes due to the relatively few risks covered and the limited payroll in each classification. But after studying whether combining the operations into a single classification or … Read More »

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