ReadyLink Healthcare, Inc. v. Jones

Opinion

DOI TODD, J.

This case arises from a dispute over a year-end audit by respondent State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) of appellant ReadyLink Healthcare, Inc.’s (ReadyLink) payroll to determine its 2005 *1169premium for its workers’ compensation insurance policy.1 The SCIF assessed an additional premium of $555,327.53 based on its determination that ReadyLink’s per diem payments to traveling nurses counted as payroll. The Insurance Commissioner upheld the assessment, finding that ReadyLink’s per diem payments were not “reasonable” and therefore not exempt from payroll because they could…