Earlier this month, Blue Shield recognized D&D as their top Medicare Producer for Northern California.
We want to recognize Catherine Lumsden and Linda Hoang-Chao for their tireless work in this area. Thank you very much ladies for your incredible work. We’re proud of these two and their accomplishments at D&D!
Wanted to share the great news with you all – D&D won The Business Journal’s Best of Central Valley Business Award for Best Property/Casualty Insurance Company for the 9th year in a row!
You can reference the awards round-up in the link HERE, and attached is a picture of Matt accepting the award.
Congratulations everyone!!
The California Department of Health Care Services is offering FREE emotional support services with the goal of assisting individuals, families, and communities recovering from the effects of Covid-19. Receive up to 6 crisis counseling sessions via phone or website chat. To learn more visit https://www.calhope.org/.
In the meantime, if you or anyone you know is in need of free help, please provide them with the following information:
Crisis Counselor:
To speak with Parents / Caregivers:
ZOOM Support Groups for Parents & Caregivers:
The attached flyer was shared with us by Veronica Cerda, a FEMA crisis counselor with CalHOPE-United Parents, a non-profit funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and run by California Department of Health Services.
Please review the attached flyer for additional details. Feel free to share with anyone in need.
On behalf of D&D, Matt DeFendis will be attending the Town Hall meeting on March 16, 2020. He will be addressing our response in regards to the COVID-19 and the impact it has on us right now.
If you would like to attend please use this ext. #6890.
If you are outside the office you will need to dial into 559-437-6890 Bridge#1 Password 123456
*Reminder if you’re attending to please mute your phones and please contact Nora if you would like to be included in this call.
The Clovis Chamber of Commerce Salute to Business Luncheon honors our community leaders annually. On January 30th, join us at the Clovis Veterans Memorial District as we award those whose achievements make our community special and look back at the Chamber’s accomplishments in 2019.
This year, our very own Scott Dority will be honored as Businessperson of the Year. If you would like to attend the luncheon please register with the link here.
Honorees include:
For more information and updates on this year’s Annual Luncheon, visit their website or call 559-299-7363.
California’s medical malpractice cap may soon be increasing. Click here to read more about the families of injured patients challenging the current limits on Insurance Journal’s website.
“Pacific Gas & Electric cut power to 48,200 customers in seven counties in California’s Sierra Foothills and North Bay overnight because of high fire danger.”
At the height of the #MeToo movement, California lawmakers enacted a requirement that all employers with five or more employees would need to provide sexual harassment prevention training to all employees by January 1, 2020. However, in response to outcry from the business community, Governor Newsom signed into effect a law this past Friday extending the deadline for employers to provide the newly required sexual harassment prevention training to January 1, 2021. What do California employers need to know about this one-year reprieve?
Summary Of Legislation
At the prompting of the business community, the state legislature introduced and passed SB 778 to make some needed clarifications to the new sexual harassment prevention training law. Primarily, SB 778 would delay the changes made by SB 1343 – one of the many #MeToo laws passed in the 2018 legislative session – so employers would have an additional year to get up to speed with and comply with the training requirements.
The bill contained an “urgency clause,” meaning it would go into effect immediately if signed into law. Governor Newsom heard the concerns of the business community and signed the law into effect on August 30, right before the Labor Day weekend.
What Does The New Law Mean For Employers?
With the signing of SB 778, California employers with five or more employees will now be required to provide by January 1, 2021:
· at least two hours of classroom or other “effective interactive training and education” regarding sexual harassment prevention to all supervisory employees; and
· at least one hour classroom or other “effective interactive training and education” regarding sexual harassment prevention to all nonsupervisory employees.
After this initial sexual harassment prevention training is completed, a covered employer must provide the requisite sexual harassment and prevention training to each employee in California once every two years.
SB 778 further requires that covered employers are required to provide training to nonsupervisory employees within six months of hire, and to new supervisory employees within six months of the assumption of a supervisory position.
Finally, SB 778 clarifies that a covered employer who provided the requisite sexual harassment training and prevention to an employee in 2019 is not required to provide refresher training and education again for such employee until two years thereafter.
The Time To Prepare Is Now
While you might be breathing a sigh of relief knowing that the next few months will not be a mad scramble for compliance, you should not let your guard down. For most California employers, complying with the requirements of the new law by the beginning of 2021 will still be a large undertaking and will require advance preparation and work. This is particularly true for employers who do not currently provide sexual harassment prevention training for their non-supervisory employees, or did not previously provide training to supervisors because they fall under the 50-employee threshold.
As Hurricane Dorian makes landfall in the United States, click here to check out what its damage in the Bahamas means for the industry.
The Insurance Associates of Fresno is having a Wine and Wisdom event this Tuesday, August 20 for E&O Hot Spots. Please review the above flyer and if interested please RSVP no later than August 16th.