A handful of workers’ comp-related bills had already passed out of their houses of origin, but the majority faced a do-or-die deadline last week to clear the Assembly and Senate fiscal committees. The pending workers’ comp bills cleared the fiscal review, while some are advancing in amended form. Moving ahead of the deadline were two …
Bill introductions are complete for the first year of this two-year legislative cycle, and most workers’ compensation bills are again focused on workplace presumptions of compensability. Sprinkled among these bills are others to study gender issues, provider payments, or to require all utilization review physicians to be licensed here. Spot bills are also in the …
Governor Gavin Newsom waited until the final hours before the September 30th deadline to take action on numerous bills of interest to the workers’ comp community. Ultimately, he signed several Covid-19-related measures while vetoing two bills seeking to expand existing presumptions for skin cancer and post-traumatic stress disorders. Newsom’s support for AB 1751 by Assemblyman …
The Presumptions Wars, 2022 edition, can now be downloaded at the California Legislature’s website. On the Assembly side, there is Assembly Bill 1751 (Daly), which would extend the COVID-19 workers’ …
In the closing hours of the legislative session, the eyes of Sacramento, much of California, and possibility parts of the world were on Senate Bill 350, the Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015.
The key policy committees that oversee proposed workers’ comp legislation in both the Assembly and Senate will be under new leadership this year and include a host of new members. The Assembly Insurance Committee is being headed up by second-term Assemblyman Tom Daly (D-Anaheim), while newly-elected Senator Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia) will take over the helm …
Workers’ Comp Executive Exclusive The long awaited deal between big labor and big business to cut workers’ comp costs while raising benefits for injured workers is reportedly at hand, but those close to the negotiations are waiting until it is out in bill form before commenting in detail. Still, they say the final provisions shouldn’t …
The new Legislature is wasting no time in introducing bills after being sworn in last week. And workers’ comp is right at the front of the line. Amy Brown, a lobbyist with Dimare, Va Vleck & Brown, tells the California Workers’ Comp Defense Attorneys Association that 26 new legislators are flooding Sacramento, and with this …