LOS ANGELES -- In a blow to the recently enacted benefit increase and workers comp reform bill in California, a researcher today said that problems at the Workers Compensation Appeals Board wont be fixed by provisions in the bill, AB 749.While the bill requires the WCAB to hire eight more workers compensation judges, that wont solve the courts slowness in resolving cases, according to Nicholas Pace, researcher with Rand Corp. What the courts really need is more clerical staffers, but many of those pos
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