The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) Classification and Rating Committee supports a plan to delay any update to the credibility tables used to generate employer X-Mods for at least another year. The delay was suggested by the bureau’s actuarial committee earlier this year, but the issue had to be reviewed by the C&R committee …
A couple owning two landscaping businesses — one classified as a gardening service and the second a tree-trimming service — face felony charges from the Orange County District Attorney’s Office for allegedly cheating State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) and state tax collectors out of more than $5.5 million. The couple — James Joseph Klinger and …
A Daly City city councilwoman’s guilty plea to workers’ comp fraud charges will net her six months in jail. That was the order of San Mateo Superior Court Judge Lisa Novak following a plea bargain in the case. Margarita “Maggie” Gomez will begin serving her sentence later this month but should be out before the …
The San Bernardino District Attorney has arrested and filed charges against the owner of Clinical Laboratory of San Bernardino Inc. for denying workers’ comp benefits to an injured employee. Owner Melinda Furnas of Colton also faces premium fraud charges for allegedly making misrepresentations to her workers’ comp carrier at the time — Zenith Insurance Company. …
Heeding the recommendation of the former Experience Rating Task Force, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) is moving to update credibility values used in computing employers’ X-Mods in a more timely fashion. But it will not move to change the threshold for calculating primary and excess losses, at least not at this time. The …
The California Department of Insurance says it caught a San Mateo County employer allegedly cheating on her payroll reporting to avoid paying nearly $3 million in workers’ comp premiums. Redwood City police arrested 31-year-old Teresa Reif, who operated Genesis Building Services Inc., a janitorial and pest control company. Investigators allege that over a four-year period, …
A former Daly City councilwoman and a San Jose-area businessman are in hot water for workers’ comp fraud. The latter faces a 10-year jail sentence for hiding payroll to avoid workers’ comp premiums and payroll taxes, while the former reached a plea agreement that cut 15 felony counts down to two, but she still could see …
A San Joaquin County couple faces 13 felony counts for allegedly underreporting almost $6 million in payroll to avoid paying workers’ comp premiums to State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) and Redwood Insurance Company. They’re also accused of filing false payroll reports with the Employment Development Department to avoid unemployment and payroll taxes. All told, the …