State Fund Waits Too Long to Challenge Finding of Miscalculated Premiums

A California appellate court in an unpublished decision ruled that State Compensation Insurance Fund could not belatedly challenge an administrative determination that it miscalculated an employer’s policy premiums. In 2018, the insurance commissioner found that State Compensation Insurance Fund had been miscalculating the workers’ compensation premiums of A-Brite Blind & Drapery Cleaning during the 2015 and 2016 policy periods. The commissioner further designated the A-Brite order as precedential. State Fund filed a motion for reconsideration, which was deemed denied when ...