A catering company that cooks and plates meals for airline industry clients is fighting a move by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau that could nearly triple its workers’ comp premium. Since its beginning, the company’s operations have been classified under 9079 – restaurants. But the Bureau is now saying it should be classified as …
Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau officials report that long-standing regional differences in workers’ comp claim frequency and severity rates continue to impact the California workers’ comp system costs. But any effort to generate advisory pure premium rates that adjust for these regional variations is not in the cards. The Bureau is a private organization with …
On November 30, the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) held a scheduled two-hour open microphone for people to discuss how to improve the delivery of medical care in the workers’ compensation system. The forum did not last that long. There was a curious accumulation of payers and providers and advocates offering observations and criticisms that …
The California Department of Insurance refused to hear an employer’s arguments challenging a classification assignment by the State Compensation Insurance Fund and the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. The Department says the appeal is untimely after being filed over four months past the deadline for assistance. Sentro Technologies filed the appeal with the Department’s Administrative …
California’s largest workers’ comp carrier, State Compensation Insurance Fund, is bucking the general trend of continuing rate decreases with a filing for a 2.4% across the board increase for January 1, 2022. But there is a deeper story. It is steep increases for a subset of classes with rate increases up to 100% that effectively …
A company that provides housekeeping services under contract to a timeshare development that also rents out rooms on a nightly basis is challenging the reassignment of its payroll from a classification for hotels/motels to one for janitorial services. The reassignment affected the company’s entire payroll and resulted in an additional $96,000 in workers’ comp premium. …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Classification and Rating Committee is backing a study of California’s two food and beverage classifications – class 9079 covering Restaurants or Taverns and class 8078 covering Sandwich Shops and other small eating establishments. The expected outcome is a recommendation to start including the tips that servers in restaurants earn …
The industry-backed committee charged with updating California’s workers’ comp classifications and the rules for calculating premium approved a number of changes. The changes include increasing the state’s dual wage thresholds and updating the minimum and maximum payroll limits for 16 different classifications. The most important change, however, might be the sunsetting of two Covid-19 rules. …