News Digest 10/18/2007
Editorial: No Evidence Yet of Need to Boost Benefits That California’s workers’ compensation reforms cut costs by billions of dollars is not by itself a signal that the state should …
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LXIII To PD Or Not PD
The level of permanent disability (PD) benefits is once again the talk of Sacramento. Though benefits significantly increased in 2002 with the passage of AB 749 (Calderon), the permanent disability …
News Digest 10/9/2007
Gilroy Faces Spiraling Benefits Costs In Gilroy, the cost of covering city employees’ benefits has risen 72 percent over the past six years, outpacing the city’s total budget expenditures more …
News Digest 9/17/2007
Injured Illegal Worker May Return to U.S. to Seek Benefits The Mexican Consulate in Boston is attempting to acquire a humanitarian visa for an illegal worker, who was deported after …
Temporary Disability Bill Makes Headway
SACRAMENTO – It’s let’s make a deal time in Sacramento and Joe Coto’s (D-San Jose) Assembly Bill 338 is at the receiving end of some substantial – and likely effective – amendments that both Republicans and Democrats agree might make for the best answer to California’s workers’ compensation temporary disability debate. The bill was ammended …
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News Digest 8/24/2007
California High Court Awards Benefits to Injured Deputy A lengthy legal battle between Stanislaus County and a former sheriff’s deputy has come to a close, as the California Supreme Court …
Dems Push PD As Interest Shifts From Workers’ Comp
California’s injured-workers lobby might be left by the wayside this session, the victim of much greater attention to health care reform and a late budget, still A.W.O.L. as of Monday. No slam dunk either is health care reform, an issue so controversial it will require massive cooperation to hammer out a package. And once the …
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LIV Keep It Simple, S—–
That strange odor you may smell from the general direction of Sacramento is a deal cooking on increasing permanent disability benefits. Consistent with the way workers’ compensation issues have been …