District attorneys from across California once again are asking the state’s Fraud Assessment Commission not to cut funding for workers’ comp investigations, even though commissioners expressed concern over forcing employers that have weathered the COVID-19 pandemic to pick up the tab.
Representatives from district attorneys' offices on Wednesday urged commissioners to approve requests for a 15% funding increase, one year after the commission voted to maintain the current assessment level at $77.9 million.
Prosecutors argued that cutting anti-fraud funding — or even...
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