Flash Report: SB 1023 Vetoed

By: Workers' Comp Executive - The journal of record for the workers' comp community in California.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger applies the veto pen to SB 1023 authored by Sen. Joe Dunn (D-Garden Grove). The legislation would have restored an oppressive 5814 penalty-like structure to the workers comp system increasing take home pay for applicants attorneys and costs in the process.The veto doesnt come as a great surprise, but does come as a relief to an industry that was prepared for the possibility that the governor might sign SB 1023 to deflect democrat criticism of earlier refor

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