A Summary of SB 899

The California Legislature will hold a Floor Vote today in the Senate and Assembly to decide whether to send SB 899 (Poochigian, R-Fresno) to Governor Schwarzenegger for signature. An in depth legal analysis of the bill will be published later in WorkCompCentral, but here is the thumbnail highlights of the major changes this bill will institute: 1) Medical Control. Employers are allowed to contract with "networks" of doctors. Employers who do so maintain medical control indefinitely. Employees are allowed to change doctors within the network, after the first visit, which is with a doctor sele...