Hospital Presumption Resurfaces in Legislature

A hospital employee in California who provides direct patient care and contracts would be presumed to have suffered a work injury under a recently amended bill that resurrected the idea of a hospital worker presumption for the fourth consecutive year.Berkeley Democrat Nancy Skinner amended Assembly Bill 808 on May 29 to include the MRSA presumption language for hospital workers. Skinner introduced AB 808 last year as a public social services bill.The Assembly unanimously passed Skinner’s bill in its original form on May 26, 2011, but the Senate Committee on Human Services never scheduled...