A seemingly routine panel discussion at a recent Commission on Health, Safety, and Workers’ Compensation may prove to be the starting point for California’s next round of workers’ compensation reforms. Representatives for injured workers, providers, and payers were discussing what is and isn’t working in the system when a representative for employers and workers’ comp …
It’s a 10.4% recommended rate increase in the state’s advisory pure premium rates effective September 1, 2026. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s insurer majority just approved it as the …
A nonprofit organization that runs competitive youth rowing programs is asking the Department of Insurance Administrative Law Bureau to intervene in a reclassification dispute with its workers’ comp carrier and the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. The organization’s operations were moved into a class with a pure premium rate more than 2.5 times the rate …
A California employer is facing the double whammy of an X-Mod that’s bloated by years of unreported payroll, skewing its experience rating calculation. Now, it’s facing the impact of an 850 X-Mod on the additional premium that’s due as it seeks to bring its payroll reports into compliance. Law enforcement is involved, but no charges …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau officially requested approval of across-the-board increases to the dual wage thresholds, as well as increases in payroll minimums and maximums in limited classes. The California Department of Insurance will take public comment and hold a hearing later this spring on the proposed changes for September 1, 2026, policies. The …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Actuarial Committee will continue its work on the industry’s annual rate filing later this spring. But a portion of the regulatory filing affecting the experience rating plan is already portending another rate hike. Whereas the off-balance factor scrubbed two points off what could have been a request for a …
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 …
The WorkWhile app-based temporary staffing company agreed to pay $4.5 million under a stipulated partial judgment with the San Francisco City Attorney, with $4.1 million of that going to workers as restitution for unpaid wages. The company, however, is continuing to fight the government’s claims that its drivers are employees, not independent contractors, as the …