Golden State Has Weathered Pandemic, but Overall Recovery Likely to Be Slow

California and its workers’ comp system may have outlasted the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the state’s recovery could be relatively slow as long as business restrictions remain in place, economic experts and researchers said during the California Workers' Compensation Institute’s annual conference Thursday. “We’re not likely to see a normal economy this year,” California Economic Forecast Director Mark Schniepp said, one year to the day after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. “That's our assumption...