Justices Say SB 899 Left Apportionment Formula Alone

The California Supreme Court decided Thursday that the 2004 workers' compensation reform law did not replace the Fuentes apportionment formula used for three decades, ending a two-year-old debate over how lawmakers intended to do the math. The high court unanimously held in the consolidated Brodie-Welcher v. WCAB cases that the 1976 Fuentes decision still stands. The ruling established a method of apportionment computation known as formula A. "Having reviewed both the language of Senate Bill No. 899 and its legislative history, we conclude formula A, the formula approved by Fuentes, rem...