BILL NUMBER: AB 2490	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 11751.5 of the Insurance Code, relating to
workers' compensation insurance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2490, as introduced, Jones. Workers' compensation insurance:
rating organizations: statistical agent.
   Existing law authorizes the Insurance Commissioner, after notice
and hearing, to promulgate reasonable rules and statistical plans, to
be used in recording and reporting by workers' compensation insurers
their loss and expense experience in order that the information may
be made available to aid the commissioner in his or her duties
regarding the approval of workers' compensation insurance rates.
   Existing law requires the commissioner to designate a licensed
rating organization, as defined, as his or her statistical agent to
gather and compile workers' compensation insurers loss and expense
experience statistics, and all licensed rating organizations are
required to report loss and expense experiences of their member
workers' compensation insurers to the statistical agent. Subject to
reasonable rules approved by the commissioner, the statistical agent
is required to make available those compiled experience statistics to
all licensed rating organizations. The statistical agent is
authorized to make a reasonable charge to other rating organizations
for the expense incurred by it in combining, tabulating, and
compiling the experience of all workers' compensation insurers.
   This bill would require that the statistical agent make available
those compiled experience statistics to all other organizations that
the commissioner, by regulation, identifies as appropriate, and would
authorize the statistical agent to make a reasonable charge for the
information.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 11751.5 of the Insurance Code is amended to
read:
   11751.5.  The commissioner, after notice and hearing, may
promulgate reasonable rules and statistical plans, which may be
modified from time to time and which shall be used thereafter in the
recording and reporting by insurers of their loss and expense
experience in order that the experiences of all insurers may be made
available in such form and detail as may be necessary to aid the
commissioner in administering the provisions of Article 2 (commencing
with Section 11730). The commissioner shall designate a rating
organization licensed under this article as his or her statistical
agent to gather and compile such experience statistics and all
licensed rating organizations shall report the experience of their
members to such designated rating organization. Subject to reasonable
rules approved by the commissioner, such designated rating
organization shall make such experience statistics, when compiled,
available to all licensed rating organizations , and other
organizations that the commissioner, by regulation, identifies as
appropriate to obtain the statistics,  and may make a reasonable
charge to other rating organizations  and other organizations
 for the expense incurred by it in combining, tabulating  ,
 and compiling the experience of all workers' compensation
insurers.