The question is, will Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and special counsel Bryant Henley be forced to submit to depositions concerning their representations and intentions during settlement negotiations with the State …
The father, daughter team behind a Merced farm labor contractor – Agriculture Services Inc. –are due back in court next month to face five felony counts for allegedly defrauding State …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s governing committee just approved amending the January 2021, pure premium rate filing. It is recommending the application of a six-tier surcharge for COVID-19 costs …
State Compensation Insurance Fund reports that net earned premium through the first half of 2020 is down over 20%. The decrease helped drive up its combined ratio to nearly 146% …
There were nearly 1,100 accepted COVID-19 workers’ comp claims for state employees as of the beginning of August. The Department of Corrections accounted for two-thirds of the cases. Claims by …
In a decision that holds lessons for all insurance brokers and their clients, the California Department of Insurance says State Compensation Insurance Fund misinterpreted state law and charged, when it …
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge is sending a dispute over the legality of State Compensation Insurance Fund’s tier modifiers back to the California Department of Insurance. The tier modifier …
The workers’ comp costs for California state workers has climbed to $803 million, according to the latest fiscal year totals from CalHR. The spending on workers’ comp benefits amounts to …