Appropriations Committee Plans Hearing on Breast Cancer Rating Bill

The California Assembly Appropriations Committee will hold a hearing Thursday on a bill that would specify how impairment ratings for breast cancer claims must be calculated. An analysis of Assembly Bill 479 prepared ahead of the hearing projects “no new costs” because the requirements in the bill generally align with educational directives promulgated by the Department of Industrial Relations and the Division of Workers’ Compensation for determining impairment caused by breast cancer. AB 479, by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, D-San Diego, would require that do...