Lawmaker Seeks to Make Available Public Self-Insurer Data

A Bay Area lawmaker is pushing legislation that would allow the Office of Self-Insurance Plans to release information about self-insurance programs run by public agencies throughout California. Assemblyman Tony Thurmond, D-Richmond, on Wednesday amended AB 2334 to add language allowing OSIP to release information about administrative costs, benefits expenditures, and the solvency and performance of public self-insured employers’ workers’ compensation programs. The bill would also allow OSIP to release data identifying individual public self-insurers, their third-party ad...