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| | Rosa Moran Resigns As Administrative Director Of The CA Division Of Workers' Compensation
By Lonce LaMon - September 7, 2012
Rosa Moran, the Administrative Director of the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), has resigned. The announcement of her resignation was made yesterday, September 6th, by Department of Industrial Relations spokesman, Dean Fryer. He responded by email after rumors confronted the department with word that Moran was resigning.
“Effective Wednesday evening, September 5, Division of Workers’ Compensation Administrative Director, Rosa Moran, resigned her position. Moran was originally appointed on July 18, 2011. We appreciate her dedication to the department and division and thank her for her service. Moran will return to her prior position as a workers’ compensation Judge in the DWC Oakland district office,” Dean Fryer wrote.
Rosa Moran had been highly praised by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations, Christine Baker, as an excellent assistant and partner who had gone on a listening tour of California for months with Baker to absorb as much information as possible about the problems in the California Workers’
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Rosa Moran had been highly praised by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations, Christine Baker, as an excellent assistant and partner who had gone on a listening tour of California for months... |
Compensation system. Christine Baker mentioned the hard work and the 14- hour-days that she and many of her work partners had put in in order to analyze the root causes of the problems in the beleaguered workers’ compensation system in a speech she gave at the April 23rd 2012 film premiere of "Decreasing Workers' Comp Costs And Improving Outcomes" in Anaheim produced by the Employers' Fraud Task Force with other partners.
The creation of this collective effort was SB 863, which passed rapidly through the California Assembly and the Senate just last Friday night. It is expected to be signed by Governor Jerry Brown in the imminent next days ahead.
Although the Department of Industrial Relations also expressed there would be no further information given about Moran’s resignation at this time, one can at least speculate that after getting SB 863 through the Legislature after over 14 months of arduous long hours as administrative director of the DWC, it’s not unthinkable Rosa might presently most personally need a step into a less stressful direction. After all, a $138,000 annual salary in 2012 doesn’t give one the comfort it did back in the 1980s. And added to that somewhat modest compensation, the work ahead now in implementing SB 863 may be even more grueling than the creation of it was. Bill Zachry, the Vice President of Risk Management of Safeway, Inc. strongly suggested this in an article penned by him and published by adjustercom yesterday. Bill wrote, “Now the real work starts.” Also, as Administrative Director, Rosa managed a staff of over 1,000 persons and handled a budget of $155 million.
Rosa Moran, on the right, is pictured here with Christine Baker, left, Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations, and Dr. Tomer Anbar, center, Chief Clinical Advisor to the Employers' Fraud Task Force.
Rosa Moran took over as Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation in July of 2011 after the sad and untimely death of the former Administrative Director, Carrie Nevans, which occurred in February of 2011. Carrie Nevans had been ill for some time and finally succumbed to kidney failure. She had had a kidney transplant in 2002.
Now the future for Rosa Moran is back to work as a WCAB judge in Oakland, California, where she has a fine tenure. Rosa has a law degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law.
So, who will become the next Administrative Director of the DWC?
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