A Southern California employer sued its broker for negligence for placing the company in a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) that obtained workers’ comp coverage from the many times declared illegal …
A host of pricing surveys from national retail and wholesale brokerages show strong price increases for most commercial insurance lines with brokers declaring that the industry is now in a …
The 2019 market share totals are telling. While the ten largest groups writing workers’ comp coverage in California are unchanged from 2018, there is significant movement among the players starting …
The full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers’ comp claims remains to be seen. Still, the California Workers’ Compensation Institute says a review of early claims show the majority …
The California Department of Insurance says it has a range of options for sanctioning brokers that place clients in an illegal or unlicensed workers’ comp program. The question arose after …
The statewide stay-at-home orders that California has been operating under since March is having a dramatic impact on workers’ comp claims for the state’s self-insured school districts and municipalities. Actuaries …
On May 19th, the United States Department of Labor issued its Revised Enforcement Guidance for Recording Cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The Guidance goes into detail on how OSHA …
Roughly one in five workers’ comp claims related to the Coronavirus pandemic was denied. Nearly 5,100 California workers filed such workers’ comp claims through the end of May. Workers’ Comp …