Calif. Vintners Launch Self-Insurance Program

Compensation Risk Managers of California announced Friday that it has received final regulatory approval a new self-insurance group program to cover winery workers in California. Compensation Risk Managers said it developed the Vintners and Independent Producers Self Insurance Program to help control the high-costs of mandated workers' compensation insurance for vintners in the five major winery areas in California - Napa/Sonoma, San Jose, Central Coast, San Diego and Central Valley. The group is the sixth program that CRM has launched in California since it began operating in the st...