CVII: Then There Were Two
On June 22, Governor Brown announced that Juan Pedro Gaffney, 80, of Sebastopol, had been appointed to the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB). Per the announcement, “Gaffney has been a …
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CVI: Sometime Before the End of the Month
By Publius Sometime before the end of the month, we will know what is going to happen with Senate Bill 189 (Bradford). What started as an attempt to clean up …
CXIV: SCIF: Enterprise, Government, or Unfair Competitor?
Let me preface this article with the following – I’m a red-blooded, free market capitalist. I’m a principal in a medium sized brokerage firm. Like many of you, I believe a …
CXIII ON FIGs: ‘Fine Insurance Guys’
FIGs are those guys who make it to the top on the company side of the insurance business. You know the kind of guys we’re talking about – they’re the …
CXII From The Inside
Revisions to Self-Insured Group Regulations Reviewing the revisions to regulations recently released by the Department of Industrial Relations-Office of Self-Insured Plans (DIR-OSIP), my mind is drawn to the fact that …
CX. A Dustup to the East
When someone mentions Arizona these days, it is usually because of the running battle over its recently enacted immigration laws. But a few intriguing developments in the Grand Canyon State …
CIX. Check, Please
It appears that California is headed for another upsurge in workers’ comp premiums for insured employers. This likely has to do with a number of things, including chaos created by the …
A New Look At The Old Order
One of Governor Schwarzenegger’s first initiatives after ousting Gray Davis from office was to launch the California Performance Review as a way to identify waste and inefficiency in California’s ever growing bureaucracy. Key among its findings were calls for the elimination of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) and the Commission on Health and Safety …
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