News Digest 11/16/2006
‘Tis the Season Publius takes on the appointment process for CHSWC and offers hope for a brighter future. Then again … this is California workers’ comp. Read this insightful commentary …
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XLVII ‘Tis The Season
While most of the Sacramento crowd looks to the last two months of the year as a time to get away from it all, the gnomes at the Commission on …
XLI The Long, Hot Summer
By all accounts, the summer of 2006 has been a scorcher. Record heat baking the entire state has caused alarm from San Diego to Redding. But the real cooking has …
XXXIX Game Day Decisions
In case you didn’t notice, there was an election on June 6. Apparently, elections in California are becoming much like rate filings in workers’ compensation insurance—we do it every six …
XXVVII CHSWC Commission Anxiety
Somewhere along the way, the fuse that was supposed to ignite the dynamite that was supposed to blow up the box that is the Commission on Health and Safety and …
XXVI Physician Heal Thy[CMA]self
The California Medical Association (CMA) has launched another assault on SB 899. First, it attempted unsuccessfully in both the Legislature and before the Division of Workers’ Compensation to allow individual …
XXV B…B…Broken Record
Once again, we are about to be subjected to semiannual rate reduction now expected in California workers’ compensation insurance. This, we learned to expect, conveniently corresponds with the biweekly tongue-lashing …