10/07/2020
of Senate Bill 1159.
In addition some stakeholders have asked the commissioner to consider an alternative proposal that would downplay or remove COVID-related costs and enact an advisory pure premium rate about 5 lower than what the WCIRB has proposed.
The California Labor Federation the
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10/06/2020
burden as the WCIRB proposal recommends raising the average pure premium rate to 1.56 per 100 of payroll. The indicated rate is 2.6 higher than the last approved rate of 1.52.
The WCIRB proposal would include add-ons for projected COVID-19 costs of 24 cents per 100 of payroll for health care and
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10/05/2020
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Friday announced the appointment of Lynne Davidson as a public member of the Workers Compensatio
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10/02/2020
policyholder to a physical audit.
WCIRB staff determined that the maximum reportable payroll for executive officers should increase 7.3 to 144300 from 139100 to reflect projected wage inflation. The minimum reportable payroll should be increased by the same percentage to 55900 from 54600.
WCIRB
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09/30/2020
the Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau or the Employment Development Department. Current regulations allow a 20 fee for obtaining records from EDD and a 30 fee for getting records from the WCIRB.
The division said its proposed rules would implement new billing codes for sales tax and
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09/28/2020
the Filings and Plans section of the WCIRB website include
California Workers' Compensation Uniform Statistical Reporting Plan-1995 USRP.
California Workers' Compensation Experience Rating Plan-1995 ERP.
Miscellaneous Regulations for the Recording and Reporting of Data-1995
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09/25/2020
could get on the road to recovery.
It's going to be a long haul Jon Haveman executive director of the National Economic Education Delegation said Thursday. Were going to find that a lot of the economy that existed before the pandemic is going to be gone.
On Thursday Haveman joined WCIRB
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09/24/2020
pandemics economic fallout caused mass layoffs this past spring throwing a wrench into the states payroll numbers and altering medical and workers comp-related cost projections. The WCIRB expects a payroll decline of about 1.5 billion to 2 billion in 2020 Bellusci said.
This COVID-19 slowdown is
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09/17/2020
The Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau submitted an amended 2021 pure premium advisory rate recommendation to the California Department of Insurance that would spread projected costs for COVID-19 across six different categories based on risk of exposure.
In August the WCIRB filed
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09/17/2020
When the Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California included COVID-19 related costs in its 2021 pure premium rate filing the Golden State became the first jurisdiction to formally consider the effects of the virus in future rate planning.
Donna Glenn
WCIRB officials
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