Employers Tepid on Effect of Reforms

By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefDANA POINT, Calif. – Employers and carriers are not brimming with optimism that last year's reform measure was anything more than a starting point. They say California’s workers’ compensation system is still treading water, despite passage of Senate Bill 863.Speaking on a panel analyzing SB 863 during the California Workers’ Compensation and Risk Conference on Wednesday, Mark Webb, vice president and general counsel for Pacific Compensation Insurance Co., said the reforms have put the state in a “different place,” but i...