State Fund's Chief Rides Tide of Litigation

Editor's note: This is the fourth in a five-part series published in the Word on Workers' Compensation report, presented Saturday at the fifth annual WorkCompCentral Gala and Comp Laude Awards in Burbank. In 1990, Vernon Steiner left the University of California, Los Angeles, with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, unsure what to do next. He had ditched an early plan to study computer science, telling himself the logic, ethics and metaphysics classes he loved would help him crack the legal field. When it came time to apply to law school, though, he decided he didn&#...