Kamin: Approval of Lien Changes Headline Busy Legislative Session

Gov. Jerry Brown enacted numerous changes that will help carriers fight fraudulent lien claimants when he closed out the 2016 legislative session by signing new lien procedures into law. The governor signed Senate Bill 1160 and Assembly Bill 1244 into law on Sept. 30, the last possible day for him to do so. SB 1160 is a 20,300-word omnibus bill that ushers in a plethora of changes that will impact all participants in the workers’ compensation system, with the most newsworthy being that lien claimants who are facing fraud charges can be subjected to automatic stays. Lawmak...