With COVID-19 cases on the rise and flu season approaching, COVID-19 stands ready to wreak havoc on unprepared employers. While we celebrate the 6-month anniversary of the lifting of California's COVID-19 State of Emergency in February, employers need to recognize that COVID-19 still presents challenges. In the last two months, [...]
Many GSRMA member agencies are afforded pollution coverage through Public Risk Innovation, Solutions, and Management’s (PRISM) Pollution Program. The Pollution policy is written on a claims made and reported basis. Any known claims and all known incidents that could give rise to a claim must be reported to the company [...]
Common Performance Review Distortions and Retaliatory Decision-Making that Leads to Wrongful Termination and Retaliatory Termination Lawsuits by Patricia Eyres, Managing Partner Eyres Law Group, LLP There are many bases for claims of wrongful termination under California law. The types of claims range significantly and fall into two broad categories: Discrimination [...]
The acceleration of insurance cost increases in California is alarming. Insurance rates for property and liability continue to increase significantly year over year, not only for GSRMA, but for all risk pools and carriers in the State. Globally, insurers’ appetite for financing risk, especially in California, has diminished as the [...]
Timely reporting of claims is a crucial element of the claims process. When a member reports a claim promptly, it enables GSRMA to take immediate action on the claim such as mitigating inconvenience to the member or preserving any evidence that may be needed to reject or defend a liability [...]
The Interactive Process is a requirement of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, and is triggered by an employee who suffered a work-related or non-work related injury or illness and has requested a reasonable accommodation. All California employers with 5 or more employees are required to reasonably accommodate their employees [...]
Cal/OSHA has recently released their permanent COVID-19 Non-Emergency Regulation. This regulation has been several years in the making, and has some changes moving forward including: The Non-Emergency Regulation will be in effect for a minimum of 2 years from the effective date of 02/03/23 Records must be maintained for a [...]
Per OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting requirements, Wednesday, February 1, is the deadline to tabulate your annual OSHA Log Summary (OSHA Form 300A) and post it in a common area where notices to employees are usually posted. This is the summary only (300A), not the OSHA 300 Form. [...]
Many public entity risk pools are specialized to a certain sector, such as school districts or local governments. This niche focus is often why those organizations choose to work with a homogeneous risk pool — a pool consisting of only one type of entity. On the surface, it seems like the [...]
Many GSRMA member agencies are afforded pollution coverage through Public Risk Innovation, Solutions, and Management’s (PRISM) Pollution Program. The PRISM Pollution and Remediation Legal Liability policy placed with Ironshore Specialty Insurance Company expires on July 1, 2022. The pollution legal liability policy is written on a claims made and reported basis. Any known [...]