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Rules Under Development
General reporting rules, classifications, audit and recordkeeping, rates and rating system for Washington workers' compensation insurance
Chapter 296-17, WAC
All updates for this rule:
296-17-31017, 296-17-31020, 296-17-31002
The purpose of this rulemaking is to consider clarifying the current reporting requirements for employees working in or performing work incidental to two risk classifications. This rulemaking is to consider a distinction between the two applications and include some situations not currently addressed.
9/1/2009
296-17-871
The purpose of this rule filing is to consider amending Chapter 296-17 WAC. RCW 51.32.0991 provides for a reduction in incurred losses, at the director’s discretion, if a worker with a vocational plan had a prior vocational plan approved in 2008, or later, and the worker is engaged in medically restricted activities when injured. The statute expires June 30, 2013. The proposed rule is meant to clarify when the director’s discretion can no longer be granted based on the sunset language of the statute and how it is applied to an accident year’s incurred losses for experience rating purposes. A public hearing is scheduled for January 26, 2010, in room S117 at the L&I Tumwater office.
10/20/2009 8/18/2009
296-017
This rulemaking is a result of Chapter 432, 2009 Laws (Substitute House Bill 1555) which permits the Department of Labor and Industries to access public works’ retainage amounts to insure payment of premiums due to the department.
8/4/2009
296-17-855, 296-17-875, 296-17-880, 296-17-885, 296-17-890, 296-17-895, 296-17-89502, 296-17-89504, 296-17-90492, 296-17-920
This rule proposal will amend the tables of classification base premium rates, experience rating plan parameters, experience modification factor calculation limitations and retrospective rating plan size groupings for the workers’ compensation insurance program for calendar year 2010. Classification base rates are amended so that the base rates reflect updated loss and payroll experience and the proposed decision to increase premium rates an overall average 7.6 percent per hour worked.
Public hearings will be held as follows:
Date & Time Location October 27, 2009 1:00 pm Tukwila Labor & Industries Office October 28, 2009 10:00 am Tumwater Labor and Industries Auditorium October 28, 2009 10:00 am Vancouver Red Lion Quay October 29, 2009 1:00pm Bellingham Quality Inn October 30, 2009 9:00 am Spokane Airport Ramada October 30, 2009 2:00 pm Richland Hampton Inn
10/30/2009 Public Hearing
10/29/2009 Public Hearing
10/28/2009 Public Hearing
10/27/2009 Public Hearing
9/22/2009 6/16/2009
296-17-90445
This rulemaking adds language to WAC 296-17-90445. It adds additional information about how occupational disease claims are included in retrospective rating adjustment calculations. The adopted language explains how chargeable claim costs are assigned to retro and non-retro employers, and that claim costs not assigned to any employer will be eliminated from the retro processes through the calculation of the performance adjustment factor. The changes were adopted 10/26/2009 and will be effective on 11/26/2009.
10/26/2009 9/8/2009 Public Hearing
9/8/2009 Comments Due
8/5/2009 6/3/2009
2009 Workers’ Compensation Premium Rates: Labor and Industries is required by law to establish and maintain a workers’ compensation classification plan and to set premium rates that maintain actuarial solvency of the accident and medical aid funds. By law, the plan must be consistent with recognized principles of insurance and rates adjusted annually or as needed to ensure solvency of the insurance trust funds. Labor and Industries is also required by law to offer retrospective rating plans to employers as a further incentive to encourage workplace safety and prevent employee injury. The changes were adopted 12/1/2008 and became effective on 1/1/2009.
1/1/2009 12/1/2008 10/31/2008 Comments Due
10/24/2008 Public Hearing
10/22/2008 Public Hearing
10/21/2008 Public Hearing
9/17/2008 6/17/2008
296-17, 296-17A
This rulemaking is as a result of Chapter 88, Laws of 2008 (Senate Bill 6839) to clarify premium liability and information needed when Washington employers work out of state. The changes were adopted 10/1/2008 and became effective on 11/1/2008.
11/1/2008 10/1/2008 9/15/2008 Public Hearing
9/15/2008 Comments Due
9/11/2008 Public Hearing
9/10/2008 Public Hearing
8/5/2008 5/12/2008
The purpose of this rule making is to amend Chapter 296-17 WAC General Reporting Rules, Audit and Recordkeeping, Rates and Rating System for Washington Workers’ Compensation Insurance - Drywall Rule
10/1/2007
2008 Workers' Compensation Rate Changes
This adoption amends the tables of classification base premium rates, experience rating plan rates, calculations, and factors, and retrospective rating plan size groupings for the workers compensation insurance program for calendar year 2008. New classification base rates were calculated based on updated loss and payroll experience resulting in a proposed overall average 3.2 percent increase in premium rates. The experience rating calculations that were deferred last year for employers who had lower rates under the pre-2007 rating plan have now been fully implemented.
12/1/2007 11/6/2007 Comments Due
9/19/2007 9/19/2007 7/17/2007
Chapter 296-17A WAC “Classifications for Workers Compensation Insurance”. The department has conducted a review of various classifications and determined that certain classes are in need of revision. Examples of these revisions are rules that apply to com
5/31/2007 4/17/2007 2/20/2007
Classifications have been placed in a new WAC 296-17A. This adoption revises all references in WAC 296-17 that now refer to WAC 296-17A. It also clarifies drywall rate title to indicate “dollars per sq ft of wallboard” in WAC 296-17-89502 and clarifies h
5/31/2007 4/17/2007 2/20/2007
Industrial Insurance Premium Rates
Beginning July 1, 2007 employers and workers will not pay the Medical Aid Fund premium for work performed from that date through Dec. 31, 2007. On average, the savings will represent about 34 percent of total premiums paid into the workers’ compensation s
3/21/2007 1/17/2007 Comments Due
12/18/2006 Public Hearing
12/15/2006 Public Hearing
12/14/2006 Public Hearing
12/13/2006 Public Hearing
12/12/2006 3/21/2006 Preproposal (CR-101)
Classification Rules for Worker's Compensation- Farm Labor Contractors
Some employers have expressed confusion about the meaning of references in chapter 296-17 WAC to “farm labor contractors.” The purpose of this rulemaking is to modify those references to clarify the department’s current practice of assigning classificati
3/21/2006 Public Hearing
12/20/2005 Preproposal (CR-101)
Retrospective Rating Program
Labor and Industries is considering making changes to several rules applicable to the retrospective rating program codified in Chapter 296-17 WAC. Possible rule changes would clarify: 1. The process L&I will use in approving employers to participate in r
11/3/2004
Retrospective Rating
Labor and Industries is considering making changes to several existing rules applicable to the Retrospective Rating Program codified in Chapter 296-17 WAC, including adding a new provision that would allow L&I to accept copies of records produced from pap
9/2/2003
