– Rating Bureau’s Draft PEO Underwriting Rule Passes First Test

The Classification and Rating (C&R) Committee of the California Workers' Compensation Rating Bureau is pushing ahead with a compromise requiring insurers to write individual policies for clients of a professional employer organization (PEO). The draft rule, approved 6-1, gives carriers the choice of identifying either the PEO or the employer-client as the named insured-a peace offering that appears to satisfy quarreling interests in the dispute, including State Compensation Insurance Fund,