Employers Set to Defend Reforms in 2014

By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefIt's unlikely that California Gov. Jerry Brown will enact legislation that could potentially increase workers' compensation costs, lobbyists for insurance companies and employers say, but they'd just as soon keep bills such as Senate Bill 626 from reaching his desk in the first place.Opponents of SB 626, a bill by Sen. Jim Beall, D-Campbell, will get their first chance to kill the measure on Wednesday when it comes up for a vote before the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee.The bill would eliminate from the Labor Code a sentence added...