Lobbyists Unsure Reform Coming this Year

By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefANAHEIM, Calif. -- California's workers' compensation system is urgently in need of reform, and while it isn't at a crisis point yet, key lobbyists said on Thursday that it would be best to institute some kind of reform as quickly as possible to avert a real crisis.At the same time, reform is not usually done during election years and lawmakers focused on other issues such as pension reform, the budget and ballot initiatives might want to wait until 2013 to address the comp system, lobbyists for management, labor and the insurance industry said du...