Two employer representatives were named by the Governor last week to the commission charged with examining the health and safety and workers’ compensation systems in California.
Appointed to the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation (CHSWC) were:
• Jen Hamelin, chief claims officer, workers’ compensation, at Public Risk Innovation, Solutions, and Management; and
• Kristi Montoya, director of claim operations at United Parcel Service (UPS).
Both appointees have many years of hands-on experience with the state workers’ compensation system.
Hamelin has held her current post since 2023. From 2012 she filled company roles such as director of workers’ compensation, workers’ compensation claims manager, supervising senior workers’ compensation claims specialist and senior workers’ compensation claims specialist.
Montoya has held her current position since 2023 and has held multiple roles at UPS since 2003, including director of risk management, risk management district case adviser, finance manager and revenue recovery manager.
Both Hamelin and Montoya are members of the California Coalition on Workers’ Compensation, which works alongside state lawmakers and regulators to make positive change happen. The California Chamber of Commerce also is a member of the coalition board.
The eight-member CHSWC is a joint labor-management body created by the workers’ compensation reform legislation of 1993. Its assignment is to conduct a continuing examination of the California workers’ compensation system and the state’s activities to prevent industrial injuries and occupational diseases, and to examine those programs in other states.
CHSWC activities are funded through penalties assessed by the Division of Workers’ Compensation as a result of audits of workers’ compensation insurers and claims administrators.
