Success of the CA Reform Deal is in the Details

Late Friday, after legislators left Sacramento and the Governor headed to Hawaii for a family vacation, news came out of the Capitol that an overall deal had been struck in concept for the reformation of the California workers' compensation system."It's pretty well cooked," Senate President Pro Tem John L. Burton (D-San Francisco) had told the LA Times Friday. On Saturday, workcompcentral issued a special bulleting announcing what had been learned about the reform deal at the time:* Permanent disability: Based on the AMA Guides for assessing permanent impairment, the physician's rating would ...