Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a proposed $227.2 billion state budget that includes emergency COVID-19 relief funding for businesses and unemployed Californians. The budget also calls for an extra $8.7 million …
Changes now under consideration could double or even triple the number of experience-rated employers in California. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is researching changes that would give X-Mods to …
California’s employers and insurance carriers are raising concerns that the Division of Workers’ Compensation’s proposed med-legal fee schedule (MLFS) update will increase costs more than is projected and, worse, create …
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara bucked both the insurance industry and his own Department in rejecting a plan for California’s already stressed insured employers to pay more in workers’ comp premium …
Through the first nine months of 2020, including seven months of a COVID-19 upended economy, the State Compensation Insurance Fund reports that its net premiums earned are off 18% from …
The State Compensation Insurance Fund developed and launched an online tool to help its smaller policyholders – especially those with high X-Mods – to create an effective injury and illness …
State Compensation Insurance Fund is taking its fight with the California Department of Insurance to federal court. The parties are due to face off in early 2021. At issue is …
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Steven Gevercer issued a strong rebuke to State Compensation Insurance Fund in rejecting its efforts to force Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and special counsel Bryant Henley, …