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Most Comp Bills Pass Ahead of Deadline
05/31/2022
Commission on Health and Safety and Workers Compensation to complete by Jan. 1 2024 a report assessing whether employers with poor work comp risks are reclassifying workers as temporary staff or labor contractor employees to doge work comp costs.
On Tuesday the Senate voted 28-9 to pass SB 1127 by
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Potential Reform Bill Among Those Passed Before Fiscal Deadline
05/23/2022
temporary staff or labor contractor employees to doge work comp costs.
The costs of creating the high heat advisory task force proposed in AB 1643 would also be unknown but potentially significant according to a bill analysis.
The measure by Assemblyman Robert Rivas D-Hollister would create the
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Appropriations Committee Hearing Labor Contractor Coverage, Medical Treatment Study Bills
05/09/2022
The California Assembly Appropriations Committee will discuss potential fiscal implications for extending the deadline for a study on exempting some treatments from prospective review and ordering an analysis of whether employers are using labor contractors to avoid work comp liability during a
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Committee Passes Social Worker Measure; Staffing Firm Bill, Fraud Debriefing Measures Amended
04/20/2022
reclassifying their employees as temporary staff or employees of labor contractors in order to shift the employee onto the workers compensation coverage of the labor contractor.
An earlier version of the bill would have required all employers to have comp coverage for labor provided by a staffing agency
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Amendments Limit Scope of Staffing Firm Bill
03/30/2022
required to purchase workers compensation coverage for any contracted workers providing labor within their usual course of business regardless of the coverage already in place through the labor contractor.
Amendments Rodriguez adopted earlier in March would have required all employers to have workers
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Labor Contractor Pleads Guilty to Comp Fraud
03/29/2022
The owner of two Southern California farm labor companies pleaded guilty to workers compensation fraud the Ventura County District Attorneys Office announced.
Robert Z. Delara 50 pleaded guilty to felony work comp fraud and admitted a special allegation that he stole more than 100000
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Assembly Committees Hear Comp Bills Wednesday
03/28/2022
temporary staffers.
The Assembly Labor and Employment Committee is scheduled to deliberate AB 2614 by Assemblyman Freddie Rodriguez D-Chino which would require a client employer to procure valid comp coverage for contracted workers independently of any coverage maintained by a labor contractor.
The
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Farm Labor Contractor Accused of Premium Fraud
12/13/2021
The California Department of Insurance announced that a farm labor contractor in Stockton was arraigned on 15 felony counts of insurance fraud grand theft and tax evasion.
Alfredo Casas 62 allegedly underreported payroll for his farm labor contracting business by more than 1 million
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Affirmative Defense Options Could Make or Break Employer's Case, Defense Attorneys Say
09/20/2021
-dozen affirmative defenses attorneys can use including that an injured worker is an independent contractor was intoxicated at the time of injury or that the employee was engaged in willful misconduct when the injury occurred.
Employers also may be able to argue against a claim if a defense
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IBR or Simpler Method Should Resolve Geographic Pricing Disputes, Stakeholders Say
07/13/2021
wrong GPCI. That may mean that our billing company didn't catch it but I don't think so.
Still even one example shows GPCI disputes are clearly IBR issues and the DWC and its IBR contractor Maximus should not have been able to reject it Honor-Vangerov said.
This raises a larger issue of
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