Assembly Passes Bills to Aid Terrorism Victims, Change Composition of SCIF Board

The California Assembly unanimously approved bills that would require employers to provide assistants to help workers injured in terrorist attacks obtain medical treatment, and to mandate that State Compensation Insurance Fund include a current or former small-business owner on its board of directors. The Assembly on Thursday passed AB 44, by Assemblywoman Eloise Reyes, D-San Bernardino, which would require employers to provide “immediately accessible advocacy services” for workers injured by acts of domestic terrorism. Advocates would be responsible for helping injured worker...