Baker and Parisotto Seek Collaboration to Carry Out Reforms

CSAN DIEGO — Tensions ran high at the California Applicants' Attorneys Association 2017 winter convention on Friday when the administrators of the state comp system faced a packed ballroom to discuss their efforts at implementing the latest round of statutory directives from the Legislature. The audience became increasingly restive as Christine Baker, the director of the Department of Industrial Relations, began singing the praises for changes wrought by the passage of Senate Bill 863 in 2012. Baker credited this legislation with increasing the amount of permanent disabili...