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What’s With California’s Excess Insurance Market

California’s excess workers’ compensation insurance market grew by 6% to nearly $234 million in written premium last year. The increase, though, is roughly half the 11.7% increase the general workers’ comp market saw last year as wage inflation and expanding payrolls boosted premium. Self-insured employers, self-insured groups (SIGs), and self-insured public entities buy excess workers’ … Read More »

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Security Fund’s Workers’ Comp Liabilities

The California Self-Insurers’ Security Fund continues to see a steady drop in its workers’ comp claim counts and liabilities as the pace of new defaults remains low to non-existent. The security fund did not absorb any new estates last year or the year before after taking over one each year in 2021, 2020, and 2019. … Read More »

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50% Increase Proposed for DIR Budget

California Governor Gavin Newsom delivered a proposed $297 billion state budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year that includes nearly $1.4 billion in funding for the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). The Governor’s proposal includes roughly $450 million in additional funding than what was in his original proposal a year ago. Last year, the original proposed … Read More »

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SIG Sues Former Member Over Post-Term Workers’ Comp Claims

The California Agricultural Network (CAN), a self-insured group for the AG industry, is suing a former member company and its former owner. The group seeks to recover some $3 million for workers’ comp claims the SIG inherited after the grower closed down. The group claims it was not informed of a change in ownership at … Read More »

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Bankruptcy for Self-Insured Health Care District

The board of directors for the San Benito Health Care District declared a fiscal emergency. It gave district officials the authority to file a Chapter 9 bankruptcy petition with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. The District operates the 25-bed Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister and is self-insured for its … Read More »

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Is the Self-Insurers’ Security Fund Hiding Something?

“It is the public policy of this state that public agencies exist to aid in the conduct of the people’s business and the proceedings of public agencies be conducted openly … Read More »

Private Self-Insureds’ 2021 Experience

include $2.8 billion for future medical expenses and $1.1 billion for future indemnity benefits. Self-insured employers’ workers’ comp liabilities are at their lowest level in roughly 20 years. In 2001, private self-insured employers had liabilities of $3.8 billion, but this soon topped $5 billion before topping out at $5.6 billion in 2013. The annual report … Read More »

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Self-Insured Group Industry’s Latest Numbers

According to the latest data from the state’s Office of Self-Insurance Plans, California workers’ comp self-insured groups (SIGs) are covering more payroll but fewer employers. The number of active SIGs is unchanged, but the number of active affiliates is down by nearly 10% from the prior year’s total. Covered payroll increased by over $225 million, … Read More »

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