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Workers’ Comp Reform Bill Running Low on Time

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The numbers continue to change and time is running out on a workers’ compensation reform bill that has California legislators scrambling to come up with a compromise that promises to both increase permanent disability benefits for injured workers and find savings in the state’s unwieldy workers’ comp system.

Now there’s talk of dropping reform efforts and taking them up again during a special session in December.

A hearing of the Assembly Committee on Insurance on Tuesday produced a few hours of testimony from the two parties negotiating the deal

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