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Mixed Responses to Governor's Action on Presumption Bills

10/28/2022
90. Meanwhile the Democratic governor took his veto pen to a third proposal SB 284. The bill would have expanded the rebuttable presumption for post-traumatic stress disorder to additional classes of certain active-duty police and firefighters emergency dispatchers and emergency response

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CHSWC Postpones Thursday Meeting

10/06/2022
involved interviews of only 13 firefighters and police officers combined. Gov. Gavin Newsom in vetoing a bill SB 284 that would have extended the PTSD presumption to cover additional first responders such as emergency dispatchers said expanding the presumption before any studies have been completed

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WCIRB Posts Memo on AB 5 and Motor Carriers

10/04/2022
the employer can rebut the presumption by satisfying all three prongs of the so-called ABC test. The bill included carve-outs for some special interests such as newspaper publishers who said they couldnt afford the cost of providing basic workplace protections for delivery drivers and threatened to

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Newsom Shortens Window for Claim Decisions, Extends COVID Presumption

10/03/2022
California employers will have less time to accept liability on certain presumptive injury claims and face penalties of up to 50000 for unreasonably denying them under a bill enacted by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Gov. Gavin Newsom The governor also extended the presumption that COVID-19 is

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Columnist Says Pressure Building for Comp Reforms

09/27/2022
flip the burden of proof and require employers to prove a claimed condition did not arise out of employment. For example Walters said SB 542 from 2019 created the presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is compensable for first responders. SB 284 a bill that would expand the PTSD

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Social Worker MPN, State Firefighter Salary Continuation Bills Pass as Session Ends

09/02/2022
presumption of compensability for post-traumatic stress disorder. The Senate on Wednesday voted 40-0 to concur in amendments Sen. Anthony Portantino D-La Canada Flintridge made to SB 1002 while the measure was in the Assembly. The bill would allow employers to add licensed clinical social workers to

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Legislature Passes Bills to Cut Time to Decide Liability, Extend PTSD Presumption

09/01/2022
amended his bill in August to add language that would ensure firefighters and police officers for various state agencies are covered by the COVID-19 presumption. Daly also revised the bill to preserve the COVID-19 presumption through Jan. 1 2024. As introduced the bill would have extended COVID-19

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Senate Passes COVID-19, PTSD Presumption Measures

08/31/2022
when it was brought up for a third reading in the lower chamber. Before the vote Sen. Henry Stern D-Canoga Park amended the measure to postpone the effective date by a year to Jan. 1 2023. The bill would extend the PTSD presumption to active firefighting members of the Department of State

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Lawmaker Trims Year Off Proposed COVID-19 Presumption Extension

08/29/2022
automatically at the end of the year. AB 1751 by Assemblyman Tom Daly D-Anaheim would maintain the presumption until Jan. 1 2024 under amendments he adopted Thursday. Earlier versions of the bill would have kept the presumption in place through Jan. 1 2025. At the same time Daly added language that

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Senate Passes Lifeguard Skin Cancer Presumption , Insurance Fraud Bill

08/25/2022
The California Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill that would expand the presumption that skin cancer is work-related for peace officers with the state departments of Fish and Wildlife and Parks and Recreation. On the same day the Senate voted 38-0 to send AB 334 to the governor the

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