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Article: DIR Launches Enforcement Program to Target Employers Who Fail to Carry Workers' Compensation Insurance.
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- Business Wire
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- May 15, 2008
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) today launched the Insurance Coverage Program, an enforcement program designed to identify and target employers who fail to carry workers' compensation insurance. DIR Director John C. Duncan announced the new program today at Northern CA Workers' Comp Forum in Monterey.
"Through this new enforcement program we will be able to systematically identify unlawfully uninsured employers to prioritize as enforcement targets," said DIR Director John C. Duncan. "By partnering with other agencies we are leveraging our resources to seek out illegally operating employers and to level the playing field ...