Comp Bills on Hold Until August

California lawmakers won't take action on bills that would require employers to take more steps to ensure workers injured in terrorist attacks get medical treatment, require regulators to exhaust the $120 million supplemental benefit fund every year and prohibit apportionment to conditions related to pregnancy — until the legislators return from their summer recess. In all, state legislators will have more than a dozen workers’ compensation bills to consider when they return from the break that starts today and ends Aug. 21. The Senate isn’t wasting any t...