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PTSD Presumption Bills Clear Initial Policy Committee Hearings

The Assembly Insurance Committee advanced a measure to expand for state employees the workers’ comp presumption for post-traumatic stress disorders to cover nurses and psych techs working at California’s prisons and state hospitals. Meanwhile, the Senate Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee passed a similar measure that would push back the sunset date for an … Read More »

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Commission Forwards PTSD Study, But With Caveats

The Commission on Health, Safety, and Workers’ Compensation forwarded a study examining post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) among firefighters and peace officers to the Legislator who requested it but not before including a warning that the study may not be entirely reliable. CHSWC staff included the cover letter after several Commissioners raised concerns about the researchers’ … Read More »

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Unfinished Business

On September 30, the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation (CHSWC) held a virtual meeting. On the agenda was a presentation by RAND on its preliminary research report … Read More »

Workers’ Comp Bills Clear House Of Origin Before Deadline

California legislators advanced one bill that would sharply curtail the amount of time employers have to investigate workers’ comp claims and passed two others that expand the state’s presumptions that certain conditions are industrially caused. However, a third presumption measure for the healthcare sector and COVID-19 failed to clear the Senate before the June 4th … Read More »

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Newly Published Decision Annuls 100% PD Award

The Sixth District Court of Appeal ordered publication of a decision annulling a 100% permanent and total disability award that was based solely on a psychiatric injury stemming from the sexual abuse by a treating physician. The court remanded the case to the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board to consider permanent disability issues surrounding the underlying … Read More »

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Should the COVID-19 Presumption Be Permanent?

The Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee passed on a 4-1 vote a bill to extend several rebuttable presumptions to frontline workers in acute care hospitals, including a permanent presumption for COVID-19 infections. The bill, SB 213 by committee chair Sen. Dave Cortese (D-San Jose), covers a range of infectious diseases, cancers, musculoskeletal injuries, … Read More »

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Legislative Agenda Includes Full Card Of AB 5 Exemption Bills

Legislators rushed to beat last week’s deadline for bill introductions and submitted dozens of measures that could impact California’s workers’ comp system. Over two dozen bills seek to carve out new exemptions to last year’s AB 5 legislation. AB 5 is the highly controversial legislation that codified and enlarged the Dynamex decision’s ABC test for … Read More »

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