Newsom's Order Disrupts Natural Flow of Crafting WC Legislation, Columnist Says

California Gov. Gavin Newsom shifted the focus of the COVID-19 debate among workers’ compensation stakeholders last week when he issued an executive order creating a rebuttable presumption for state workers, according to a veteran columnist with decades of experience covering reforms. “The cloistered community of political lobbyists who specialize in the massive, but otherwise obscure, system of compensating workers for job-related illnesses and injuries had been preparing for one of their periodic clashes. And then Gavin Newsom interceded,” former Sacramento Bee writer ...