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2006

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December 2006


December 20, 2006	3rd District Reviewing Retroactive PD Case California -- 3rd District Reviewing Retroactive PD Case: Top [12/20/06] A California appellate court has agreed to decide whether the new permanent disability rating schedule can be applied retroactively to injuries before 2005. ... read more

December 13, 2006	CAAA Vows to Continue Challenge to Rating Schedule California -- CAAA Vows to Continue Challenge to Rating Schedule: Top [12/13/06] The California Applicants' Attorneys Association vowed Tuesday to keep up its legal battle against "deep cuts in injured workers' permanent disability compensation" approved by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration..read more

December 12, 2006	Dan Walters: Workers' comp clash will resume You heard almost nothing about it during the campaign, but workers' compensation -- the very contentious system that deals with job-related illnesses and injuries -- was a powerful factor in the duel between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his Democratic challenger, Phil Angelides...read more

December 12, 2006	INJURED WORKERS’ ADVOCATES WILL CONTINUE EFFORTS TO CHANGE GOVERNOR’S PERMANENT DISABILITY COMPENSATION CUTS: Permanent Disability Compensation Cuts Not Legal or Appropriate SACRAMENTO – Advocates for injured workers today said they would continue to press their fight challenging the Schwarzenegger Administration’s deep cuts in injured workers’ permanent disability compensation. The advocates for Californians injured on the job responded to a Workers Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) decision last week. The board’s decision in injured worker Joey Costa’s case broke no new legal ground, leaving the schedule in place, but not ruling that the schedule is legal and appropriate. “The opinion in the Costa case has not ended this dispute. Other injured workers’ cases raising the issue of the validity of the Permanent Disability schedule are set for trial throughout the state, and the evidence in those cases will meet the standards set out in the Costa decision,” said California Applicants’ Attorneys Association (CAAA) President Linda Atcherley. “We will continue our fight to overturn the governor’s drastic reductions in the already-meager compensation permanently injured workers receive.”..read more

December 6, 2006	Juan Vargas, former Assembly Insurance Committee chairman, takes job with Safeco By John Howard Juan Vargas, a San Diego-area Assembly member who served four years as chairman of the Assembly Insurance Committee, is a new vice president in California for Safeco, a Seattle-based company that handles auto, home and business coverage. ... read more

December 6, 2006	State pushes to revise workers' comp process New rules are proposed to penalize insurers that unfairly delay or deny medical treatment. SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration is preparing to punish insurance companies that wrongly delay or deny medical care for workers hurt on the job....read more

November 2006


November 6, 2006	Exit Interview Garamendi: Workers’ Comp Reform Worked, Though Issues Remain. Garamendi: “My recommendation for the past two years has been for the State Fund to more aggressively price—or reduce their prices—and thereby create more serious price competition” John Garamendi’s days as California’s insurance commissioner are winding down... read more

October 2006


October 17, 2006	Workers' Comp Gains Haven't Eased the Pain of Tough Cases – SACRAMENTO — Two years after California overhauled its workers' compensation program, costs paid by employers have been sliced in half and profits for insurers have soared ...read more

September 2006

September 19, 2006	GOVERNOR’S VETO OF SB 815 HARMS PERMANENTLY DISABLED WORKERS SACRAMENTO, CA – Attorneys representing California’s injured workers today criticized Governor Schwarzenegger for vetoing SB 815 (Perata), which would have restored permanent disability compensation to injured workers. Multiple independent reports, including a July study by the State of California’s Commission on Health & Safety & Workers’ Compensation, have found that the Schwarzenegger Administration’s workers compensation permanent disability schedule reduces permanent disability compensation by more than 50%. ... read more

	What SB 815 would mean to workers permanently disabled by on the job injuries ..read more

July 2006

July 6, 2006	STATE HEALTH & SAFETY COMMISSION STUDY FINDS GOVERNOR CUT PERMANENTLY DISABLED WORKERS’ COMPENSATION IN HALF 10,466 Cases Examined; Governor's Cuts Were Not Based on Facts OAKLAND - The California Applicants’ Attorneys Association reacted to a new supplemental report presented today to the State of California’s Commission on Health & Safety & Workers’ Compensation finding that the Schwarzenegger Administration’s new workers compensation permanent disability schedule reduces permanent disability compensation by more than 50%. A February report to the health and safety commission composed of both business and labor representatives found that the governor’s Permanent Disability cuts were not based on empirical evidence, as required by SB 899....read more

April 2006

April 19, 2006

SUCCESS” FOR WHOM? TWO-YEAR EVALUATION OF GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER’S WORKERS COMP. LAW Medical & Legal Experts, Injured Workers Rate Governor

Gov. Schwarzenegger Promised
His Workers’ Compensation Reform Wouldn’t Harm Injured Workers
The Governor Broke His Promise to Protect Injured Workers ... read more

TWO-YEAR EVALUATION OF GOVERNOR
SCHWARZENEGGER’S WORKERS COMP. LAW Doctors, Experts: Law Fails Injured Workers ...read more

“Hostile to Physicians, Harmful to Patients”
A Survey of Physicians by the California Medical Association... read more

February 2006

February 9, 2006	Study finds disabled workers losing benefits under new system SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's overhaul of the workers' compensation system has saved California employers billions of dollars over the last two years, but it also has led to a significant drop in benefits paid to disabled workers, according to a new report...read more

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