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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …