California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will now require most of the roughly 5,000 brokers and agents the entity deals with to go through one of two wholesalers. An estimated 3,500 agents and brokers will be impacted. With the new deal, …
California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has changed its broker distribution model, requiring most of the roughly 5,000 brokers and agents the entity deals with to go through one of two wholesalers. The change, which is effective Jan. 1, 2013, establishes …
As Legislators rushed to amend and pass a bill that would reform California’s workers’ compensation system before the Friday’s midnight deadline, several late amendments were made that may give the bill a fighting chance. And Gov. Jerry Brown personally urged …
Confidence in the state government to reform California’s unwieldy workers’ compensation system is falling as Legislators struggle to get buy-in on a bill to increase benefits for injured workers and address escalating costs. A recent poll shows nearly six in …
The numbers continue to change and time is running out on a workers’ compensation reform bill that has California legislators scrambling to come up with a compromise that promises to both increase permanent disability benefits for injured workers and find …
The California Department of Insurance has issued California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ annual report for 2011 that details CDI’s progress on its “ambitious consumer and business protection agenda.” The report, released each year around August, details the work of the …
A Utah Court of Appeals ruled the term “jet ski” to be ambiguous as exclusion in a homeowners’ policy, and to back up its decision the court used as a reference the popular reference website Wikipedia, calling it a “great …
A workers’ compensation reform bill was officially introduced on Monday, and the same day the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau issued a study saying the bill could produce a savings of nearly half-a-billion-dollars. But that savings will be outpaced …
What appears to be a cut down and reworked version of a workers’ compensation proposal has been put into bill form and is being circulated around the state capital. The “tentative draft SB 863” proposal as it’s being called appears …
People overwhelmingly believe workers’ compensation premiums will rise if no reforms come out of a bill currently in the works in state Legislature to increase benefits for injured workers and reduce waste in the system to the tune of more …
