Privacy Bill Cleanup Effort Encounters Friction

SACRAMENTO - As deadlines came and went last month for bills to pass out of their committees of origin, two bills that attempted to clean up a workers' comp medical privacy law failed to move, perishing instead in committee.The bills were an attempt by some employer groups to "fix" and dampen the impact of last year's legislation, Assembly Bill 435, which became controversial only after it became law. At the first of the year the new law mandated that insurers and third party administra