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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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Labor Commissioner Issues Stop Order for Misclassification

The California Labor Commissioner issued citations totaling $2.3 million against Amity In-Home Care Services for allegedly misclassifying some of its workers as independent contractors, failing to properly pay wages, and maintaining adequate workers’ comp coverage. The Commissioner is using her new legislative authority to collect the civil penalties on behalf of the misclassified workers instead … 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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Pure Premium Rate Decision Due Soon

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara heard the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s case for why California’s advisory pure premium rates should increase by 7.6%. He also listened to the countervailing argument of why rates should continue their historic drop for at least another rate filing cycle. In both his comments and questions, Commissioner Lara focused on … Read More »

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Levine Uses Legislation to Attack Commissioner

Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-Marin County) introduced three bills to reform operations and improve transparency at the California Department of Insurance (CDI). Two cleared a legislative hurdle and remain alive. Levine, one of three democrat challengers (and two republican and one NPP) seeking to unseat Ricardo Lara as California’s Insurance Commissioner, introduced the bills in the … Read More »

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Presumption Junction

Presumptions have been part of California’s workers’ compensation system for a very very long time. The Courts have repeatedly said the foremost purpose of a presumption of industrial causation found … Read More »

LXXXIII Year-End Sale

This is the time of year when, in an economy like this, retailers deeply discount their merchandise to get a much-needed infusion of cash before the end of the calendar … Read More »

News Digest 9/15/2008

Bee: Poizner Stakes Claim to GOP Faithful California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is working to tie up the gubernatorial nomination. It appears his progress places him in front runner status. … Read More »