The Ventura District Attorney did not criminally prosecute a Ventura County temporary staffing company that prosecutors say operated for years without workers’ comp coverage, used forged certificates of insurance, backdated …
Federal officials filed an eight-count federal indictment naming seven staffing industry executives as defendants. The case alleges a scheme to pocket payroll taxes from client employers and workers, and to cheat workers’ comp carriers out of premium. Proceeds from the $90 million scheme allegedly went toward buying real estate, luxury cars, expensive vacations, and other …
The former head of BaronHR appeared virtually in Orange County Superior Court last week and pleaded guilty to state charges of workers’ compensation fraud and employment tax fraud. Under an agreement, certain felony counts against Luis Perez were reduced to misdemeanors. He also agreed to pay full restitution and was sentenced to a year in …
The package sale of a managing general agency (MGA) and a third-party administrator (TPA) by Sunz Holdings to Acrisure LLC in 2021 is now spawning litigation between the parties. The deal, according to court documents, was valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. In the deal, Acrisure acquired Next Level Administrators, a third-party administrator, a …
A Florida-based staffing company with extensive operations in California’s light industrial and factory settings is asking a federal district court in California’s Central District to block a $51 million demand for collateral on its workers’ comp policy. Full Steam Staffing filed the complaint earlier this month, alleging that Chubb Limited retaliated against it for ending …
The California Labor Commissioner and the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement recently designated a decision as a precedent, upholding two citations against an employer for operating without workers’ comp coverage. …
A workers’ comp claim by an employee of a Professional Employer Organization is exposing some of the industry’s dirty secrets. The claim was headed to resolution through a compromise and …
Personnel Staffing Group (PSG) and XL Insurance will be fighting through a $42.5 million dispute over a large deductible workers’ comp program before the California Department of Insurance’s Administrative Hearing Bureau. The agency is holding an evidentiary hearing next month to determine if the carrier is attempting to enforce the terms of the program’s unfiled …