GSRMA is proud to announce that our Underwriter, Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, has recently achieved her Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation. The CPCU is a prestigious designation that requires 8 classes as well as an ethics component. Liz, already having her Associate in Risk Management (ARM), was able to use her [...]
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) offers health plans that cover over 1.5 million active and retired public employees and their dependents. These plans effectively meet the needs of many California public agencies. However, more than 1,000 public agencies contract health insurance directly with health plans or through Joint [...]
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 [...]
Many public employees take for granted that their health insurance coverage will come from their employer. The district chooses the insurance provider they want to work with, and employees simply select one of the plans available to them. The process is simple. However, if you’re the person deciding which insurance [...]
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. [...]
We understand that circumstances often require employees to use their privately owned vehicles (POV) for business purposes. It is important for employees, managers, supervisors at all levels to understand an employee’s personal automobile policy is the primary coverage for liability and/or damages when involved in an accident while on district [...]
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 [...]
GSRMA is excited to introduce our newest team member: Erica House! Erica is from Humboldt County and graduated from Fortuna Union High School before attending University of the Pacific, Stockton. After college, Erica spent several years overseas in Germany working for the Department of Defense, before coming back stateside and spending [...]
The 16th Annual GSRMA Training Conference is a wrap, and after a 2 year hiatus due to COVID-19, we have to say it went off without a hitch! All of the GSRMA Staff were so grateful to get to see and interact with our members again in person, and it [...]