WCIRB: Payroll Record Keeping
Important News about Payroll Record Keeping provided by State Compensation Insurance Fund. As a contractor, you are probably aware that when reporting your payroll to your worker’s compensation...
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CA Workers’ Comp. Total Temp. Disability Rates to Increase
New U.S. Department of Labor data shows California’s State Average Weekly Wage (SAWW) rose more than 2.4% from $979.90 to $1003.55 in the 12 months ending March 31, 2011, which the California Workers’...
View ArticleUsing ADR to Resolve Workers’ Compensation Claims
Dispute resolution has traditionally been viewed as a process by which a party either wins or loses. Generally, the resolution of the dispute is externally imposed and is often characterized by at...
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How the Experience Modification Process Effects Your Premiums
California’s workers’ compensation experience rating system is a merit rating system that provides a direct financial incentive for employers to reduce work-related accidents. The California Insurance...
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CWCI Data Quantifies Attorney Involvement in CA Workers’ Comp
New data from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute reveals a high level of attorney involvement in California’s “no-fault” workers’ compensation system and finds that between 2000 and 2008,...
View ArticleEmergency Preparedness: Crucial to Safety and Reputation
Cal/OSHA is placing a new found emphasis on emergency preparedness plans. Failure to have a written, well thought out emergency action plan in place can cost lives, livelihoods, and even without an...
View ArticleWCIRB Report: Premium Grew, but Claim Severity Continues to Rise
An annual report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California shows that for the second consecutive year statewide workers’ compensation premiums levels rose in 2011, but that...
View ArticleQME Panels, Liens and Attorney Provider Collusion Top the List in Fresno
Frustrations with medical provider networks, QMEs, liens and some interesting attorney activity taking root in Fresno greeted administrative director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation Rosa Moran...
View ArticleWCIRB Governing Committee Authorizes January 1, 2013 Filing
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – AUGUST 15, 2012 - Earlier today, the insurer and public members of the WCIRB’s Governing Committee unanimously voted to authorize the WCIRB to make a January 1, 2013 Pure Premium...
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Pure Premium Rates Go Way Up for Workers’ Comp
CLICK ABOVE & LINK TO VIDEO PRESENTATION California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ pure premium rate decision was released Friday night. That was in order to avoid general media attention or...
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Union ADR
Chris R. Reinhardt, CIC and K-C Insurance Agency, Inc. have been involved with UNION ADR workers’ compensation programs in California since their inception in 1994. In addition, Mr. Reinhardt and his...
View ArticleUllico Casualty Goes Into Receivership
Ullico Casualty Company – California’s 29th largest writer of workers’ camp coverage – is now operating under a court-ordered receivership after Delaware insurance regulators found it to be underwater...
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WCIRB President’s Message to the Workers’ Compensation Community
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – APRIL 30, 2012: In an open letter to the California workers’ compensation community posted May 1, 2013 on the WCIRB website, President and CEO Bill Mudge describes some of the...
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Dual Wage Thresholds Climbing
Proposed change in payroll record requirements will benefit Unionized employers In addition to the changes to the experience rating formula, the WCIRB is proposing to increase the dual wage thresholds...
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WCIRB Launches Education on Demand
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 9, 2013: Today, the WCIRB announced the launch of WCIRB Education on Demand – a series of online modules that cover topics of interest to insurers, agents and brokers,...
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WCIRB Report on Q2 2013 Insurer Experience
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 24, 2013: The WCIRB has completed its report on June 30, 2013 insurer loss and premium experience. Among the report’s major findings are a 21% increase in written premium...
View ArticleNICB: California Leads in Questionable Workers’ Compensation Claims
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013 – WORK-COMP-WIRE, DES PLAINES, IL – PR-NEWSWIRE: The National Insurance Crime Bureau recently released an analysis of Workers’ Compensation (WC) questionable claims (QC) referrals...
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State Fund Appoints Vernon Steiner New President and CEO
MAY 27, 2014: State Fund’s Board of Directors has appointed Vernon Steiner as President and CEO. Vernon will join State Compensation Insurance Fund on June 9th and comes to us from Zenith Insurance...
View ArticleCal/OSHA Construction Crackdown Happening Now
MAY 28, 2014: Brokers might be interested in warning construction industry clients that Cal/OSHA is deploying teams of investigators to construction sites throughout the state “to determine whether...
View ArticleRating Bureau Settles On 6.7% Increase For 2015 Rate Filing
AUGUST 14, 2014: Insurance carrier executives at the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau just completed their deliberations and voted to file for a 6.7% average increase in workers’ comp pure...
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