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Fresno and Dinuba Company Picnic

April 5, 2018

Fresno and Dinuba offices: Mark your calendars! D&D will be hosting a company picnic at the Grizzlies game on Friday July 28th for employees and their immediate family members.

Fresno Office: Active Shooter Training

April 4, 2018

Just a reminder to mark your calendars for D&D’s Active Shooter Training that will take place on Monday April 9th in the Main Conference room. The schedule (per department) is listed here.

If you cannot make your scheduled time or will not be in the office please let Michelle Hernandez know. A makeup session will take place Tuesday April 10th between 9-10am!

**Managers please be sure to attend the training session your department is scheduled for, if there is a conflict please let us know and we can address accordingly.

**If you do not see your name on the list please send me an email with which time works best for you.

 

 

Monday Motivation: April 2, 2018

April 2, 2018

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

-Vince Lombardi

SB 189 effective July 1, 2018

March 29, 2018

On July 1st, 2018, Senate Bill 189 (SB 189) will officially come into effect in its entirety. A small portion of SB 189 was effective 01/01/18 which allowed insurance carriers to backdate officer exclusion waivers if they met certain parameters. That backdate period has ended and the rest of the SB 189 language will come into effect on 07/01/18 for policies incepting or renewing on 07/01/18 and thereafter. SB 189 will not affect all policyholders on 07/01/18 like AB 2883 did on 01/01/17.

 

Click here to read a bulletin from the WCIRB in conjunction with the Department of Insurance which clearly lays out the upcoming changes for SB 189 on 07/01/18 along with frequently asked questions answered by the DOI.  Below are highlights of some of the changes and guidelines:

 

  • Revocable Trusts (trustee): a person holding the power to revoke a trust with respect to shares of a private corporation held in trust, or general partnership or limited liability company interests held in trust will be eligible for exclusion
  • Corporations: the stock ownership requirement for an officer to be eligible for exclusion is being lowered from 15% to 10%
  • Corporations and the “family rule”: if an officer owns at least 1% of the issued and outstanding stock of the corporation and has health insurance coverage and his or her parent, grandparent, sibling, spouse or child owns at least 10% of the stock of the corporation- that individual would be eligible for exclusion.
  • Professional Corporations: an owner of a professional corporation will be eligible for exclusion if they are covered by a health insurance plan and if they sign an officer exclusion waiver
  • Backdating: Carriers will have the ability to backdate waivers up to 15 days prior to the date of receipt of the waiver
  • LLCs and Partnerships: only Managing Members and General Partners are eligible for exclusion

 

Click here to read the complete legal text of SB-189. Please maintain this information for reference as we begin to work on 07/01/18 accounts that will be impacted by SB-189. Let Steve Gutilla Jr. know if you have any questions.

Social Media

March 21, 2018

Producers: Are you using social media? If not, what are you waiting for? A great way to get started is to share content directly from the D&D pages on Facebook and Instagram.

Click here to read up on some of the benefits of using social media for your business.