Business Flight to AZ Documented, WC Blamed

A story that ran yesterday in the periodical, Inside Tucson Business, paints a picture of such dramatic differences in the cost of doing business between California and Arizona, and in particular the cost of workers' compensation, that it is likely to become a "case study" for the Schwarzenegger administration and other Republicans seeking radical reform of the California work comp system.The story chronicles the plight of Peterson Enterprises, a former Santa Ana, Calif.-based manufacturer of beds, tables, chairs, jail cell bars, window bars and other products for prisons nationwide. According...