VIAW: Lengthy Process to Get Benefit Causes Small Settlements

Senate Bill 3 is the result of repeated complaints about injured workers settling their rights to the supplemental job displacement benefit for "pennies on the dollar," because the process of obtaining the actual benefit takes far too long, the president of Voters Injured at Work said.Jessie Ceniceros, president of the organization, said that the workers' group has been attempting to advance the bill since 2006, in an effort to address legislative concerns about return to work. Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, sponsored  Senate Bill 3, on behalf of Voters Injured at Work, and the legi...