09/12/2003
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According to the California Coalition on Workers' Compensation the WCIRB has only been able to estimate a total of 2 billion in one time savings for the repeal of the treating physician presumption and 3.3 billion in on going savings due to the repeal of the vocational rehabilitation benefit institution
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09/11/2003
the estimated savings. Garamendi told the audience that he felt confident the savings were sufficient to avoid the pure premium rate hike proposed by the WCIRB scheduled to take effect in January. There will be a WCIRB meeting on Friday to discuss the issue.
Gov. Gray Davis joined the conference
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09/09/2003
previously critical of the legislature's inability to compromise spent yesterday afternoon working the conference committee members to come up with a compromise that at least will do something.
In the meantime the Committee has been peppered with data from various sources including the WCIRB which says
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09/03/2003
The California Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau WCIRB has compiled a summary of insurer reports of loss and premium experience valued as of March 31 2003.
This summary is based on data reported to the WCIRB by insurers that wrote approximately 99 of the statewide 2002 insurance
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09/03/2003
7.2 was approved and became effective July 1 for policies beginning or renewing on or after that date. And finally last month the WCIRB recommended yet another advisory pure premium rate increase of 12 to become effective January 1 2004 for policies beginning or renewing on or after that date
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08/28/2003
California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi and the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau WCIRB were correct in calling for stabilization of the workers' compensation insurance market before employers will see a difference in their premiums the American Insurance Association AIA
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08/28/2003
convert costs for insured employers to include the costs for all self-insured employers in the State the auditor's offrice estimates the total workers' compensation cost for the system in 2002 to be approximately 25.1 billion about 5.7 billion of which was paid for medical costs.
The WCIRB reported
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08/01/2003
On July 30 2003 the WCIRB submitted its annual regulatory filing to the California insurance commissioner. In its filing the WCIRB proposed the following
An average increase in advisory pure premium rates of 12.0 to be effective on January 1 2004 for new and renewal policies with
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07/31/2003
California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi hastily called a press conference at the Embarcadero in San Francisco yesterday as he announced receipt of the 12 pure premium rate increase from the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau WCIRB.
The rate increase would bring total rate
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07/25/2003
The WCIRB Governing Committee yesterday approved the filing of an average 12 increase in advisory pure premium rates to be effective on policies incepting on or after January 1 2004. The recommended increase was based on an analysis of loss and loss adjustment experience as of March 31 2003
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