101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB1943

 

Introduced 2/15/2019, by Sen. Linda Holmes

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
215 ILCS 5/456  from Ch. 73, par. 1065.3

    Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that with respect to employers correctly classified within the construction industry, the amount charged to the insured for workers' compensation and employers' liability insurance shall be based upon hours worked by employees in specific job categories or classifications, not the wages or salaries paid to the employees. Makes technical changes.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning insurance.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by
5changing Section 456 as follows:
 
6    (215 ILCS 5/456)  (from Ch. 73, par. 1065.3)
7    Sec. 456. Making of rates.
8    (1) All rates shall be made in accordance with the
9following provisions:
10        (a) Due consideration shall be given to past and
11    prospective loss experience within and outside this State
12    state, to catastrophe hazards, if any, to a reasonable
13    margin for profit and contingencies, to dividends, savings
14    or unabsorbed premium deposits allowed or returned by
15    companies to their policyholders, members or subscribers,
16    to past and prospective expenses both countrywide and those
17    specially applicable to this state, to underwriting
18    practice and judgment and to all other relevant factors
19    within and outside this State. state;
20        (b) The systems of expense provisions included in the
21    rates for use by any company or group of companies may
22    differ from those of other companies or groups of companies
23    to reflect the requirements of the operating methods of the

 

 

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1    any such company or group with respect to any kind of
2    insurance, or with respect to any subdivision or
3    combination thereof for which subdivision or combination
4    separate expense provisions are applicable. ;
5        (c) Risks may be grouped by classifications for the
6    establishment of rates and minimum premiums.
7    Classification rates may be modified to produce rates for
8    individual risks in accordance with rating plans that which
9    measure variation in hazards or expense provisions, or
10    both. The Such rating plans may measure any differences
11    among risks that have a probable effect upon losses or
12    expenses. ;
13        (d) Rates shall not be excessive, inadequate or
14    unfairly discriminatory.
15        A rate is excessive if it is likely to produce a profit
16    that is unreasonably high for the insurance provided or if
17    expenses are unreasonably high in relation to the services
18    rendered.
19        A rate is not inadequate unless the such rate is
20    clearly insufficient to sustain projected losses and
21    expenses in the class of business to which it applies and
22    the use of the such rate has or, if continued, will have
23    the effect of substantially lessening competition or the
24    tendency to create monopoly in any market.
25        Unfair discrimination exists if, after allowing for
26    practical limitations, price differentials fail to reflect

 

 

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1    equitably the differences in expected losses and expenses.
2    A rate is not unfairly discriminatory because different
3    premiums result for policyholders with like exposures but
4    different expenses, or like expenses but different loss
5    exposures, so long as the rate reflects the differences
6    with reasonable accuracy.
7        (e) The rating plan shall contain a mandatory offer of
8    a deductible applicable only to the medical benefit under
9    the Workers' Compensation Act. Such deductible offer shall
10    be in a minimum amount of at least $1,000 per accident.
11        (f) Any rating plan or program shall include a rule
12    permitting 2 or more employers with similar risk
13    characteristics, who participate in a loss prevention
14    program or safety group, to pool their premium and loss
15    experience in determining their rate or premium for such
16    participation in the program.
17        (g) With respect to an employer correctly classified
18    within the construction industry, the amount charged for
19    workers' compensation and employers' liability insurance
20    insuring the employees employed by an employer in any job
21    category or classification shall be based upon hours worked
22    by employees in that job category or classification and
23    shall not be based upon the wages or salaries paid to the
24    employees.
25    (2) Except to the extent necessary to meet the provisions
26of subdivision (d) of subsection (1) of this Section,

 

 

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1uniformity among companies in any matters within the scope of
2this Section is neither required nor prohibited.
3(Source: P.A. 100-1118, eff. 2-1-19.)