As members of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB), you are bound, when involved in meetings, presentations or other activities of the WCIRB, to limit your actions (as well as discussions and virtual chats, other than social ones) to matters relating to the business of the WCIRB. Matters that do not relate directly to WCIRB business should be avoided. Members should particularly avoid discussions, chats or conduct that could be construed as intended to affect competition (or access to markets). Thus, as members, you should not discuss or pursue the business interests of individual insurers or others, including, in particular, the plans of individual members involving, or the possibility or desirability of (a) raising, lowering, or stabilizing prices (premiums or commissions); (b) doing business or refusing to do business with particular, or classes of, insurers, reinsurers, agents, brokers, or insureds, or in particular locales; or (c) potential actions that would affect the availability of products or service either generally or in specific markets or locales.
