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Janelle, Thank you for viewing this material. We are pleased to provide this service to you, and to provide up to date information regarding risk management, insurance industry news, products and changes. Santa Maria & Company
SPECIAL NOTICE The San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance (HCSO) was passed unanimously by the city's Board of Supervisors in July, 2006. Its purpose is to provide health care services for the estimated 82,000 uninsured San Franciscans. The Ordinance is effective January 1, 2008 and applies to businesses with 50 or more employees and April 1, 2008 for those with 20 - 49 workers who have employed within the geographic boundaries of the City and County of San Francisco. Businesses with fewer than 20 employees are exempt. Those that provide medical benefits to their employees will satisfy the requirement. HOWEVER, YOU MUST BE COVERING YOUR PART-TIMERS TOO (Anyone working for at least 90 calendar days and at least 10 hours per week). Santa Maria & Company can provide an affordable, more practical solution to paying the Healthy San Francisco membership fees. Its simple to implement, provides benefits both in and out of San Francisco, and meets the minimum spending requirements of the HCSO. The Ordinance is currently being challenged and a ruling is expected on November 2, 2007. If the HCSO prevails, we wanted you to know that we are poised to provide a solution for you.
California employers can expect to pay more in workers' compensation costs next year regardless of what Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner decides after today's public hearing on a proposed rate increase. That proposed pure premium rate increase jumped by a full percentage point to 5.2% on Friday, after the California Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau added to an earlier proposal the estimated cost of Assembly Bill 338. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Oct. 13 signed the measure into law. Introduced by Assemblyman Joe Coto, D-San Jose, the bill allows a temporarily disabled worker five years from the first payment of temporary disability to collect 104 weeks' worth of the benefit.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed Assembly Bill 8, a measure passed during the regular legislative session that would have required employers to provide health insurance to their employees or pay a tax to the state.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may not support any "roll backs" to the workers' compensation reform package that he championed in 2004, but his signature on three bills last weekend shows he doesn't mind tinkering with the system. The governor over the weekend signed Assembly Bill 338 that allows a temporarily disabled worker to collect 104 weeks of wage-replacement benefits over five years. He also signed into law AB 1073, which removes a hard cap of 24 chiropractic or physical therapy visits per claim for surgical patients.
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