Employers Hope Comp Won't Be Gavin Newsom's 'Glorious Mistake'

ANAHEIM, California — The perennial patient that is California’s workers’ comp system is stable, not dead, after eight years under a Democratic governor who turned out to be far more business-friendly than expected, an employer group’s lobbyist said Wednesday. Now the question is how workers’ comp will fare if Democrat candidate Gavin Newsom wins against Republican John Cox in November.  Jason Schmelzer, legislative analyst for the California Coalition on Workers' Compensation, and Paul Yoder, CCWC’s managing director, illustrated the potentia...