(a) All self-insured employers shall file a self-insurerâs annual report in a form prescribed by the director. Public self-insured employers shall provide detailed information as the director determines necessary to evaluate the costs of administration, workersâ compensation benefit expenditures, and solvency and performance of the public self-insured employer workersâ compensation programs, on a schedule established by the director. The director may grant deferrals to public self-insured employers that are not yet capable of accurately reporting the information required, giving priority to bringing larger programs into compliance with the more detailed reporting. (b) To enable the director to determine the amount of the security deposit required by subdivision (c) of Section 3701, the annual report of a self-insured employer who has self-insured both state and federal workersâ compensation liability shall also set forth (1) the amount of all compensation liability incurred, paid-to-date, and estimated future liability under both this chapter and under the federal Longshore and Harbor Workersâ Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 901 et seq.), and (2) the identity and the amount of the security deposit securing the employerâs liability under state and federal self-insured programs. (c) The director shall annually prepare an aggregated summary of all self-insured employer liability to pay compensation reported on the self-insurersâ employers annual reports, including a separate summary for public and private employer self-insurers. The summaries shall be in the same format as the individual self-insured employers are required to report that liability on the employer self-insurerâs annual report forms prescribed by the director. The aggregated summaries shall be made available to the public on the self-insurance section of the departmentâs Internet Web site. This subdivision does not authorize the director to release or make available information regarding private self-insured employers that is aggregated by industry or business type, that identifies individual self-insured filers, or that includes any individually identifiable claimant information. The director may publish information regarding the costs of administration, workersâ compensation benefit expenditures, and solvency and performance of public self-insured employersâ workersâ compensation programs, including, but not limited to, information aggregated by industry or business type, and that may contain data identifying individual public self-insured filers, their third-party administrators, and their joint powers authorities, as long as the information does not include any individually identifiable claimant information. For purposes of this section, âindividually identifiable claimant informationâ means any data concerning an injury or claim that is linked to a uniquely identifiable employee, employeeâs dependent, or a specific claim. (d) The director may release a copy, or make available an electronic version, of the data contained in any public sector employer self-insurerâs annual reports received from an individual public entity self-insurer or from a joint powers authority employer and its membership. However, the release of any annual report information by the director shall not include any portion of any listing of open indemnity claims that contains individually identifiable claimant information, or any portion of excess insurance coverage information that contains any individually identifiable claimant information.
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