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Bureau Files Classification Changes

The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau officially asked Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara to approve changes to the classification system to create a new wholesale baked goods class, eliminate manufacturing classes for sugar, cottonseed oil, and butter substitutes, and move these employers to new classes. The proposal also includes changes for coffee bean roasting, vape juice … Read More »

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Nonprofit Appeals Carrier Charge for Non Paid Officers

A nonprofit theater company is asking the California Department of Insurance’s Administrative Hearing Bureau to intervene in a premium audit dispute with its workers’ comp carrier over a minimum premium charge for two executive officers. But the situation is not so simple. Jabberwocky Theatre Company, a nonprofit performing arts company, filed the request for assistance … Read More »

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Fraud Commission Approves Funding Change

The California Department of Insurance Fraud Assessment Commission (FAC) approved another one-year adjustment to the anti-fraud funding formula. This one will redirect approximately $4 million away from county district attorneys and give it to the Department. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara requested the change after DAs again failed to use the entirety of the grants provided … Read More »

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Fraud Funding Realignment Is Back

The California Department of Insurance Fraud Assessment Commission (FAC) is meeting later this morning to discuss another one-year reallocation of the anti-fraud funding that California employers must pay each year. The Commission could shift some $4 million from county district attorneys to CDI for its anti-fraud efforts. The action comes against the background of district … Read More »

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New York Ruling In Deductible Dispute

XL Insurance is asking the California Department of Insurance’s Administrative Hearing Bureau to dismiss with prejudice an appeal filed by Personnel Staffing Group in a $42.5 million dispute related to a large deductible workers’ comp program. The carrier is citing a just-issued federal court ruling in New York that confirmed two arbitration awards that went … Read More »

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Audit Dispute Over “Change In Control” Payouts

The California Department of Insurance, Administrative Hearing Bureau, is being asked to determine whether $96.7 million in “change in control” payments to certain employees of a veterinary clinic chain should be included in payroll for workers’ comp premium calculations. The workers’ comp carrier included the one-time payments in its payroll audit and is seeking nearly … Read More »

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Staffing Company Goes To CDI In Collateral Dispute

Personnel Staffing Group (PSG) and XL Insurance will be fighting through a $42.5 million dispute over a large deductible workers’ comp program before the California Department of Insurance’s Administrative Hearing Bureau. The agency is holding an evidentiary hearing next month to determine if the carrier is attempting to enforce the terms of the program’s unfiled … Read More »

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CDI Cuts A Deal With Illegal MEWA

The California Department of Insurance and officials associated with the illegal multi-employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) that operated as American Labor Alliance have agreed to settle the government’s case to collect … Read More »