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Dual Wage Threshold Increases In The Works

The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is proposing to increase the thresholds that separate 16 dual-wage construction classifications into high- and low-wage groups for workers’ comp rate-making purposes. The proposed increases range from $1 to $4 per hour. The Bureau is a private organization with quasi-governmental responsibility. It is financially supported exclusively by insurance carriers … Read More »

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Criminal Charges Against Garment Manufacturer & Labor Contractor

The Los Angeles County District Attorney filed criminal charges against the owner of a garment manufacturing business and the labor contractor that supplied workers. These charges were brought under a relatively new joint liability law that applies to wage theft and workers’ compensation. State officials also say it is the first prosecution to use newly … Read More »

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Bureau Targeting Restaurants for Inspection Audits

The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau will conduct targeted inspection audits on the food and beverage service industry next year. The audits will target many of the 16,000 experience-rated risks currently in the 9079 classification. That, as it prepares to deconstruct the 9079 Restaurants or Taverns classification into six new classes effective this year on … Read More »

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Mid-Year Results Show Premium Increasing

The California workers’ comp industry is on pace to see written premium exceed pre-pandemic levels this year. Higher wages and payroll growth are driving the increase. Through the first six months of the year carriers wrote some $8.5 billion in workers’ comp premium. The full year rate would put the industry at $17 billion, which … Read More »

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Bureau Wins in DoorDash Clash

A California Department of Insurance administrative law judge says the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau correctly reclassified DoorDash’s operations from computer programmers to the classes covering package delivery operations and telecommuters. Now, the wait is on to see if Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara accepts the decision, returns the proposed decision to the ALJ, or adopts … Read More »

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San Francisco Sues Hospitality Company Over Worker Misclassification

San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu is suing Qwick Inc. for allegedly misclassifying restaurant and hospitality workers as independent contractors and denying them minimum wage, overtime pay, paid leave, and workers’ comp coverage. The city also has an ongoing misclassification lawsuit against Uber and Lyft for classifying its drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. … Read More »

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