10/01/2003
reversing the rise in premium costs for employers.
"By signing this bill package our workers' compensation system gets reforms even industry analysts recognize will save more than 5 billion next year and over 4 billion each year after." Gov. Davis said. "This reform package offers relief to employers
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01/29/2009
Average spending on temporary disability benefits dropped after the California state legislature passed Senate Bill 899 in April 2004 but spending is now climbing again and is approaching pre- reform levels the California Workers' Compensation Institute said in a research bulletin issued Wednesday
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12/24/2005
" would be exempt from the workers'
compensation system.
Legislators were called back to the capital for a September special session and Republicans were able to pass a technical fix to the workers'
compensation reform. However Democrats balked at approving the special-session legislation or an
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07/12/2012
By Greg Jones Western Bureau Chief
ANAHEIM Calif. -- Management should take advantage of a favorable political environment and push for reform legislation in 2012 according to the lobbyist for the California Coalition on Workers' Compensation.
Jason Schmelzer during his annual mid-session
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06/11/2010
- reform temporary disability outcomes by reviewing data from nearly 300000 California workers' compensation temporary disability TD claims with 2002 through March 2008 injury dates.
After adjusting for statutory benefit increases that took effect in 2003 2004 and 2005 the results show the average
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08/29/2005
competitiveness council.
Last year's effort led to pro-business legislation on tort reform small-business income tax relief jobs creation and education reform as well as other measures the paper said.
Workers' compensation failed to get through both chambers in this year's session. The Workers
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02/01/2006
Insurance brokers walked the corridors of Legislative Hall in Dover Del. last week to talk to state lawmakers about the need for workers' compensation reform and other issues according to the Property Casualty Insurers of America PCI.
The group said in a press release that about three dozen
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11/09/2006
" Baldwin said.
She said Spitzer also made economic development one of the main planks in his campaign platform giving workers' compensation reform a fighting chance. Spitzer defeated Republican John Faso on Tuesday with nearly 75 of the vote.
New York has not increased the 400-per-week limit
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02/13/2004
The prevailing winds are easterly. And so it goes with trends as well with Tennessee going through the difficult period of a workers' compensation reform and all of the partisan politicking associated with the reconstruction of this important social benefit system.
Last month in his state of
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01/14/2005
While the California workers' compensation system goes through massive upheaval from a reform process that had been touted by the Schwarzenegger Administration and proponents as a twenty to thirty percent reduction in system costs the state expects its own workers' compensation costs to increase
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