The Assembly Insurance Committee held its first hearing of the year with a comprehensive slate of bills impacting the California workers’ comp system. Notable were bills by committee chair Tom Daly (D-Anaheim) to extend the Covid-19 presumptions for critical workers another two years and a bill by Assemblyman Ken Cooley (D-Sacramento) to give the California …
The California Legislature is heading into its spring recess at the end of the week, and Senators got busy before heading out of town. They quickly advanced a controversial bill to increase workers’ comp temporary disability benefits for some workers covered by presumptions and drastically reduce the claims investigation time for employers. Having the head …
The Assembly and Senate policy committees overseeing workers’ comp issues will have a busy spring after legislators introduced numerous measures addressing the system that join a handful of carryover bills. The newly proposed legislation includes bills to extend the existing Covid-19 presumptions, expand other presumptions, shorten the time employers have to investigate claims, and address …
California legislators have until the end of the week to introduce bills for the second half of this session, but so far, there are few new bills addressing the workers’ comp system, and those that do are focused on presumptions. Earlier, legislators did advance a pair of bills out of the Senate to keep them …