A former insured of the State Compensation Insurance Fund is taking to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal its demand for SCIF to defend it in three civil lawsuits. State Fund prevailed in the lower court arguing that it has no duty to defend the company under Part 2 [aka coverage B] of its workers’ …
Brokers and employers should get ready for yet more changes to California’s experience rating formula. In 2019 changes will reduce the impact of first aid type claims on employers’ X-Mods but will also result in small X-Mod increases for loss-free accounts. The changes eliminate the first $250 from all claims which means that claims with …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is looking to restructure the classifications covering private schools, including programs that provide services to the disabled and seniors, vocational schools, K-College schools, and their associated personnel. Currently, these disparate operations are grouped together in two classifications – 8868 covering the academic professionals and 9101 covering the non-academic staff. …
The Tesla Motors factory in Fremont California may be part of the high-tech digital revolution, but employees there say it has an old school analog problem – too much of the workforce is getting injured on the job. A new report – notably linked to union organizers – says Tesla’s recordable injury is 31% higher …
The San Francisco District Attorney filed seven counts of workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud against the owner of a Bay Area cleaning company – GMG Janitorial. It is accused of running two sets of books to lower its workers’ comp bill. Overall the owner, Gina Marie Gregori of Lafayette is facing 19 felony counts for running …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau will propose simplifying the state’s experience rating formula in 2019 to just three components – actual primary losses, expected excess losses and total expected losses. The change, says the Bureau, will not have any impact on computed mods as the current calculation already gives no weight to an employer’s …
California is proposing the elimination of the first $250 of every claim from the experience rating calculation in a bid to increase reporting of small first aid claims. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Actuarial Committee approved the concept, and its Classification and Rating Committee is expected to do the same later this spring. But …
The new owner of a staffing company acquired through a bankruptcy sale, according to a decision from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New Hampshire, should not be saddled with the prior owner’s workers’ comp experience mod when the business was sold “free and clear” of all interests and encumbrances. The decision covers the sale of …