A San Francisco jury has sided with State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) in a dispute with two staffing agencies — Onvoi Business Solutions and Select Staffing. State Fund accused them of running a scheme to defraud the carrier and avoid paying more than $30 million in workers’ comp premiums. According to sources close to the …
Facing continued pushback and opposition — perhaps an outright revolt — to planned changes in its provider agreements, State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) is slowing down its timeline for re-contracting its medical provider network (MPN). But the state’s largest carrier and claims payer – wielding the largest and most substantial market power — hasn’t backed …
Over union objections, and attempting to thwart the Legislature’s intent to bring sunshine to its operations, the State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) board of directors is moving to reduce the number of times it gathers in public as it directs operations of California’s largest workers’ comp carrier. The board passed a motion last week to …
As the Legislature begins its summer break, roughly 20 workers’ comp bills are still alive and kicking. One of those bills, AB 1263, authored by Das Williams (D-Santa Barbara), has been signed by Governor Brown. Sponsored by Service Employees International Union 1000, AB 1263 would require that members of State Compensation Insurance Fund’s board of …
Attorneys for State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) are asking the California Supreme Court to overturn the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board’s decision in the Almaraz case after the Fifth District refused to review the case. The underlying decision gives physicians greater latitude in how they determine an injured worker’s level of permanent disability by allowing them to …
The owner of an East Bay general contracting firm will avoid prison as long as she walks the straight and narrow after pleading guilty to charges that she committed workers’ comp insurance fraud and violated the state’s prevailing wage rules. But Monica Mui Ung, owner and president of NBC General Contractor Corp., will be on …
State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) will learn this week how many — if any — physicians opt out of its medical provider network (MPN) to protest new controls in its network agreement to prevent overuse and abuse of opioids and compounded drugs. Both classes of pharmaceuticals have been among the fastest-growing expense items in California’s …
Leaders of state funds across the country are keeping a close eye on pricing in their workers’ comp markets and the national weather maps as they prepare for the day when they again will have to shoulder a larger share of the market. Like California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund, participants in a recent A.M. Best …