Congratulations to Helen on her baby girl, Leah Marie, due in June!

We are so excited for Helen and her family!

Due to COVID we will not be throwing a baby shower, but if you would like to send a gift, you can do so through the Buy Buy Baby website (directly to her home) or if you bring it to Tasha Silva by May 19th, she will deliver to her house.

Buy Buy Baby Registry #550149947

Helen Marie Rodela https://www.buybuybaby.com/store/giftregistry/viewregistryguest/550149947?selectedRLVFilters=_recommended

Happy National Administrative Professionals Day!

Thank you to all of you who support our brokerage in so many valuable ways.

We’re grateful to have a dedicated team, here’s to you!

Pictured here is part of our commercial lines department, workers comp marketing, and accounting team, among others, who recieved their gift cards of appreciation. Thank you for all you do!

Happy Retirement, Tina Stein!

Congratulations to our Marketing Specialist, Tina Stein, on retiring today after 30 years. We are beyond thankful and are so appreciative of her professional efforts and dedication she has provided to the D&D family for the last three decades. Truly amazing!

We hope you enjoy retirement Tina, you deserve it!

Happy New Year!

Thank you for your continued support throughout this unprecedented year. In celebrating 60 years in business this year we’re reminded, now more than ever, of how grateful we are for you as employees at D&D.

Here’s to a great start in 2021!

Happy Thanksgiving!

From our D&D family to yours, we wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving.
In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, we will be closed on Thursday, November 26 and Friday, November 27.

We will re-open on Monday, November 30th with our normal business hours.


We want to thank you all for your continuous hard work during this crazy year. We also know that this holiday may be different from years past, but we hope you and your family enjoy this time together and remain safe and healthy.

Truly thankful for each and every one of you!

Happy Halloween!

Thank you all for participating in our Halloween Pet Costume Contest and those who dressed up in the Fresno Office!

We’d like to congratulate the winner of our pet costume contest…

Charlotte the Quarantine Mom!

We’ve posted the other photos of our pets on our Instagram Story, please feel free to check them out. Another thank you goes to our social committee for organizing it all.

Have a safe weekend everyone!

D&D Halloween: Pet Costume + Pot Luck

Please see graphic below on details for our Grab & Go Halloween Lunch at our Fresno office. This will be followed by our pet costume contest!

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to our social committee members, thank you and Happy Halloween!

SB 1159 – New Employer COVID-19 Reporting Requirements

As we stated this in our email last week we wanted to provide you with these requirements here.

DiBuduo & DeFendis would like to make you aware of one provision of SB1159 that is time sensitive.
OVERVIEW FOR REPORTING NONWORK-RELATED POSITIVE COVID-19 CASES TO THEIR WORKERS’ COMPENSATION CARRIER PER SB1159 EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

California Labor Code Section 3212.88(i) states that, “When the employer knows or reasonably should know that an employee has tested positive for COVID-19, the employer shall report to their claims administration in writing via electronic mail or facsimile within three business days all of the following”:
1. For purposes of this reporting, the employer shall not provide any personally identifiable information regarding the employee who tested positive for COVID-19 unless the employee asserts the infection is work related or has filed a claim form pursuant to Section 5401.
2. The date that the employee tests positive.
3. The specific address or addresses of the employee’s specific place of employment during the 14-day period preceding the date of the employee’s positive test.
4. The highest number of employees who reported to work at the employee’s specific place of employment in the 45-day period preceding the last day the employee worked at each specific place of employment.
5. Policy name and number 
Every employer in California is also required to complete a COVID-19 log and send to their carrier by October 17th. This is for ALL POSITIVE COVID-19 cases retroactively to July 6th. To assist you with compliance with the current COVID-19 reporting requirements, you can utilize this EXCEL FORM.

A more complete summary of SB1159 will be available on our website at www.dibu.com.  

D&D Update: CA Fires

As many of you already know, the spread of the fires throughout our valley have been detrimental.

Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who has been affected by the #Creekfire and the firefighters who are currently battling it in our Central Valley mountains. Something that we’ve encouraged on all social platforms is to Text CAWILDFIRES to 90999 to make a $10 donation to the Red Cross Central California.

Funds will support those most in need. Together, we can support our community. Thank you!