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 »

Dispute Over Million Dollar Premium Charge

A construction company is asking the California Department of Insurance Administrative Hearing Bureau to settle two disputes with the State Compensation Insurance Fund over the premium calculation. The company, Mid-Construction Group, is contesting the inclusion of payroll for a licensed subcontractor on a project and State Fund’s application of its tier modifier to the policy. … Read More »

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Rate Hearing Controversy

The California Department of Insurance took testimony from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau about why it believes California’s advisory pure premium rates should increase by 0.9% and from the actuary representing employers and organized labor about why the rates should drop by an average of 3.5%. The hearing was not without controversy. “This annual … Read More »

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CDI Investigator Pay Bill Advances

Former Assemblyman Ricardo Lara was back in the Building in his position as California’s Insurance Commissioner to advocate for a pay raise for the fraud investigators employed by the California Department of Insurance. The Commissioner is sponsoring AB 2872 to give the sworn peace officers pay parity with their counterparts at the state’s Department of … Read More »

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Bill Would Give Pay Parity To CDI’s Sworn Officers

The Assembly Insurance Committee will hear a bill to give rank-and-file sworn peace officers at the California Department of Insurance a pay raise. The bill would bring the CDI officers’ salaries in line with their counterparts at the state’s Department of Justice. The pay discrepancy between two state government units for the same job has … Read More »

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Conservation Court Confirms CDI Consequences

The San Mateo Superior Court judge handling the conservation of Applied Underwriters California Insurance Company issued a stinging rebuke of Applied Underwriters’ California Insurance Company for flaunting its indifference to … Read More »