Employers Nervous as Comp Bills Pile Up in Legislature

Measures to increase permanent disability benefits, expand a presumption of causation to a new class of employees and ban discrimination in apportionment decisions are among 28 workers' comp measures introduced so far in the California Legislature.Employer advocates say Democratic lawmakers have fired a barrage of potential cost drivers at the system. Many of the measures introduced this year are repeats of legislation that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed after previous legislative sessions, while other measures represent brand-new avenues for increasing costs, said Scott Lipton, deputy ...