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• HASTA LA VISTA CHICO: Where Do Injured Workers Go for Treatment?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  I have received e mails from workers from these kinds of places. Glenn County. Imperial County. Modoc County. They couldn't find a doctor or a lawyer or both. Isolated, some of these workers are the most in need. Those sitting in ivory towers at the California Division of Workers' Compensation and the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, if not

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• Will Insurance Commissioner Poizner Get at the Fraud Against Workers in California's Workers' Compensation System?

  Published: August 14, 2007, 9:20 am

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  some 100 years ago. Workers Compensation fraud committed by injured workers by the industry's own admission is less than 1%. So where is the other 99% and why aren't we hearing about it? What we see and hear in the mainstream radio, TV & print media is usually the other way around. Who is doing anything to change that? Workers

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• Baseball Cards, Football Cards.....But Poizner Cards?

  Published: August 26, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  about Poizner's stance on workers' comp so far, you can click here. Starting in 1979, Julius Young has represented thousands of individuals who have sustained life-changing injuries or illnesses while on the job. His goal is to secure the medical treatment his clients need and the maximum benefits they are allowed so they and their families

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• Don't Forget the Injured Worker on Labor Day in California

  Published: September 3, 2007, 10:44 am

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  to a social plan known as Workers Compensation almost 100 years ago, and they have been scheming to figure a way to keep every bit of the premium dollar collected ever since. 30 cents of it just simply isn't good enough for them. They want the entire premium dollar, period! Since the California Workers Compensation industry was deregulated

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• The Worst Model for California Health Care Would Be Workers' Compensation "Reform"

  Published: September 13, 2007, 1:56 pm

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  in the details. And if the workers' comp reform is the model, the big picture solution might leave out the people the system is intended to serve. Three years after enactment of workers' compensation reforms, injured workers are still not being taken care of. As the Mercury News editorial stated, Seriously injured workers are still not

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• Governor Schwarzenegger, Please Sign SB 936 for Me and Other Californians Injured on the Job

  Published: October 2, 2007, 6:43 pm

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  only is this insultingly low compensation for my permanent disabilities and lost income, but also the insurance carrier is demanding I pay THEM $1,700 they claim they have overpaid me. But I've had NO income since March 2006! I am calling on Governor Schwarzenegger to sign SB 936 in fairness to Californians injured on the job. Patricia Mendoza

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• A Day in the Life: Riverside Electrician Can't Get Medical Care Three Years After His Injury on Job--Asks California Insurance Commissioner to Investigate

  Published: October 18, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  restore fair treatment and compensation for injured workers. Injured workers are at the mercy of insurance companies. We are losing our health, our jobs and our homes as a result of work injuries. That breaks the promise made to California workers, of adequate compensation and prompt medical care to heal and return to work. Greg Parr could

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• California Court of Appeals Forbids Schwarzenegger Workers' Comp Law From Being Used to Discriminate Against Seniors and Women

  Published: December 4, 2007, 11:57 am

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  an amputated leg that the workers' compensation laws ought to be repealed in their entirety: I said at that time: "If anyone needed any further proof that the workers' compensation system needs abolishing, and that we should return to the pre 1914 system where workers could sue their employers for injuries sustained on the job, this is it.

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• Time for California to Ban Race, Gender and Age Discrimination in Workers' Compensation Benefits

  Published: February 13, 2008, 2:02 pm

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  and age discrimination in workers' compensation benefits.] It's ironic that we are standing here on Lincoln's Birthday during a time in history when a black man and a woman are each poised to become a nominee for president of the United States, yet injured workers in California are not afforded the same protections that we have all come to

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• A California Injured Worker Asks: What's Wrong with Banning Discrimination in Workers' Compensation?

  Published: February 21, 2008, 9:32 am

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  the year in the California's Workers Compensation arena and it's going to be about Apportionment to Causation, you know apportionment for conditions related to age, gender, genetics, predisposition and other similar factors. The legislative changes passed in 2003 and 2004 reduced costs by 70% from projected levels, saving $14.5 billion a year and

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• Bill to Ban Discrimination in Workers' Compensation Passes California Committee After Powerful Testimony of Milton Jones But Not Without Opposition

  Published: February 28, 2008, 9:10 am

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  protections into the state's workers' compensation laws. It comes in the wake of a flood of medical reports written by physicians who say they are compelled by SB 899 to apportion permanent disability to factors such as age, race, and ethnicity. SB 899, Governor Schwarzenegger's workers' compensation bill passed four years ago, is permitting

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• Four Years After SB 899: The Insurance Industry 20 Year Plan on Workers' Compensation in California

  Published: April 23, 2008, 11:13 am

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  to completely bastardize the Workers' Compensation benefit delivery system of California, as well as many states across our country. What we now see is an industry hell bent on allowing injured workers to suffer and sometimes die all in the name of their corporate profits. Insurance companies are in business to make a profit. As such, they are

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• Four Years After Workers' Compensation Cuts Passed: California is Fourth Lowest State in Payments to Permanently Disabled Workers

  Published: April 24, 2008, 11:30 am

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  Governor Schwarzenegger's workers' compensation bill in April of 2004, the Governor said it was not his intention to take away benefits from seriously injured workers those with lifelong permanent disabilities. Although he has repeatedly promised to make sure that those workers do not fall between the cracks--often saying this in his veto

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• Schwarzenegger's Proposal To Raise Payments To Disabled Workers Falls Short: Benefits Woefully Inadequate

  Published: May 19, 2008, 9:45 am

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  Meanwhile, California workers are struggling. Since California does not have a wage loss workers comp law and prohibits workers from suing employers for on-the-job injuries, permanent disability payments are monies that help workers recoup earnings losses and compensate for pain and suffering. California currently lags far behind most

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• Justice for Injured Workers in California is Becoming More Unattainable

  Published: June 16, 2008, 9:35 am

  Tags: Workers Compensation

  want to tell you the truth! Workers' Compensation around this country is not operating on a level playing field and here's one of the reasons why! Part of the insurance industry's 20 year plan to gain total control of the California Workers' Compensation system (www.ciaw.org/the20yearplan.html) is to eliminate the only obstacle left in their

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