CHSWC Reviewing Reports on Access, $120M Fund

California’s labor-management advisory panel will review a pair of Rand reports investigating the adequacy of access to medical care in the state’s workers’ compensation system and evaluating the $120 million program that provides supplemental benefits to permanently disabled workers. The first Rand report on the agenda for the next Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation analyzes the Return-to-Work Supplement Program created by Senate Bill 863 to compensate workers who suffer a disproportionate loss of earnings as a result of an occupational inju...