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Article: DIR and Mainstay Business Solutions Reach Settlement in Dispute over Workers' Compensation Coverage.
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- Business Wire
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- March 29, 2005
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and Mainstay Business Solutions (Mainstay), a tribal Government-Sponsored Entity of the Blue Lake Rancheria, announced that they reached a settlement in a dispute regarding workers' compensation insurance, which has been in progress since 2003. The dispute was settled when Mainstay agreed to waive sovereign immunity and comply with DIR's application requirements for a Certificate of Consent to Self-Insure.
"Since the lawsuit began, Mainstay has bargained in good faith and cooperated with DIR's requirements in applying for self-insured status," said John Rea, acting director of DIR. "Mainstay ...