In a new twist for California workers’ comp, the Bureau’s Classification and Rating Committee is formally recommending increasing the maximum payroll limits for two dozen classifications. The industry is used to this concept as applied to owners and executives. The Committee also gave Bureau staff the go-ahead to study setting a maximum payroll limit for …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is proposing to increase the thresholds that separate 16 dual-wage construction classifications into high- and low-wage groups for workers’ comp rate-making purposes. The proposed increases range from $1 to $4 per hour. The Bureau is a private organization with quasi-governmental responsibility. It is financially supported exclusively by insurance carriers …
The trucking industry will be back in Federal court in Southern California next week to renew its fight to block the State of California from imposing the ABC independent contractor test on truck drivers. The trucking industry initially won a preliminary injunction, but that lapsed last year after the Ninth Circuit ruled against it and …
California’s workers’ comp system includes minimum and/or maximum payroll limits for two dozen classifications, as well as limits for owners and executives, and the limits are likely to go up next year. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is proposing a 3.4% increase to account for projected wage inflation. See the chart nearby. The Bureau …
The Los Angeles County District Attorney filed criminal charges against the owner of a garment manufacturing business and the labor contractor that supplied workers. These charges were brought under a relatively new joint liability law that applies to wage theft and workers’ compensation. State officials also say it is the first prosecution to use newly …
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau will conduct targeted inspection audits on the food and beverage service industry next year. The audits will target many of the 16,000 experience-rated risks currently in the 9079 classification. That, as it prepares to deconstruct the 9079 Restaurants or Taverns classification into six new classes effective this year on …
The California workers’ comp industry is on pace to see written premium exceed pre-pandemic levels this year. Higher wages and payroll growth are driving the increase. Through the first six months of the year carriers wrote some $8.5 billion in workers’ comp premium. The full year rate would put the industry at $17 billion, which …
A California Department of Insurance administrative law judge says the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau correctly reclassified DoorDash’s operations from computer programmers to the classes covering package delivery operations and telecommuters. Now, the wait is on to see if Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara accepts the decision, returns the proposed decision to the ALJ, or adopts …