Posts for February 15, 2004

From a February 11 News Release: (archived) "SACRAMENTO, CA – Injured workers’ advocates today renewed their call for workers’ compensation insurance rate regulation, and called Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi’s proposed changes “incomplete” for failing to include caps on rates, and “flawed” for sentencing injured workers to live in pain, without adequate treatment. “After injured workers’ benefits were cut by more than $5 billion last...

The Governator says that the problems with the Workers' Compensation system in California can be traced to "unscrupulous" lawyers, among others.

Quoting Gov. Arnold's campaign site (link unavailable):

"The only people who are sure to benefit from this costly broken system are the unscrupulous medical providers, lawyers and un-entitled claimants who have learned to game the system at the expense of California's employees and...