Bill hearing season is underway in the state capitol. The Senate Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee will begin reviewing bills this morning, including measures to expand 4850 leave, expand workers’ comp presumptions, and continue certain death benefits for a longer period. The Assembly Insurance Committee set a hearing for next week. The agenda is …
California legislators submitted proposed legislation up to the deadline for introducing bills for the first year of this two-year session. Among the final workers’ comp bills introduced for the year are proposals affecting the state’s legal cannabis industry, expanding financial disclosure requirements, improving contract transparency and cracking down on uninsured employers. Additional “spot bills” are …
Legislative proposals affecting the California workers’ comp industry were trickling in as the deadline for bill introductions neared. Early measures are focusing on public safety officers, brought back the concept of a private sector presumption, and put a target on employer premium fraud. SB 536 by Sen. Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera) aims to crack down …
The Contractors State Licensing Board’s board of directors approved seeking legislation to reestablish a limited exemption from the requirement to carry workers’ comp coverage for all licensees except those holding a C-39 Roofing classification. The proposed reintroduction of the exemption, which the board previously backed eliminating, will also be accompanied by new large penalties for …
Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected a proposal to give the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board a role in overseeing employers’ compliance with California’s workplace health and safety laws. The Governor also rejected measures to boost salaries for California Department of Insurance investigators, another to expand 4850 leave to more public employees, and proposed changes to the California …
California employers and insurance companies face new laws impacting the state’s workers’ comp system operations in 2025 and beyond. Some bills were signed earlier in the session, but the fate of others wasn’t decided until the final days of the session. The most troublesome measures fell to Governor Gavin Newsom’s veto pen (see related story). …
Governor Gavin Newsom is slowly working through the hundreds of bills the California Legislature sent to his desk this year. The bills include controversial measures to create a new private sector workers’ comp presumption for farmworkers who succumb to heat-related injuries and another to require all private sector utilization review decisions to go through California-licensed …
The California Legislature has just ten days to wrap up work on numerous workers’ comp bills that are still pending this session. Heading into the final stretch legislators are continuing to push measures that would create a private sector workers’ comp presumption for farmworkers, make it a crime to deny time off to seek treatment …