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: Legal Pad | LAAdvocates push bill to increase benefits for disabled workers
By Jason Siegel
Injured workers and their advocates are pushing for a bill to increase benefits for permanently disabled workers.
?California workers permanently disabled on the job receive compensation that is among the lowest the nation,? Sue Borg, president of the California Applicants? Attorneys Association (CAAA), said in a press release. ?Injured workers have suffered 50 to 70 percent cuts to benefits that were never intended by the legislature,? said Borg
A coalition of insurance companies say more data is needed and oppose the bill, which would increase the number of weeks permanently disabled workers could get benefits, KPBS reported. (LISTEN)
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on April 25, 2008 (boomark / email).
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