Members of the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations unanimously passed a bill that would identify conditions that California doctors must assess when determining the impairment rating for occupational breast cancer.
Committee members on Tuesday voted 5-0 to pass AB 479, by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, D-San Diego. The bill would require doctors assigning impairment ratings for breast cancer caused by occupational exposure to take into consideration:
The presence or absence of the organ.
Any loss of function of the upper extremity, including loss of the range o...
Comments