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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Oct. 4, 2007

Labor’s Loss

Forum Column - By Linda F. Atcherley - Three years after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's reforms to workers' compensation in California, new changes are needed to erase the harm done to the state's injured laborers.

FORUM COLUMN

By Linda F. Atcherley

      Four workers' compensation bills are currently on Gov. Schwarzenegger's desk. Two of those bills clarify or correct administrative and judicial misinterpretation of the governor's workers' compensation reform of 2004.
      SB 936 corrects unintended cuts to permanent disability compensation occasioned by an administrative misinterpretation of Labor Code Secti...

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