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Workers' compensation enforcers widen focus on employers (Los Angeles Times)
Audits of factories, farms and other workplaces highlight violations by employers. For a decade, California employers and their advocates in Sacramento complained about the high cost of workers' compensation insurance and condemned abuses of the system by employees, who they said fake claims, exaggerate medical conditions and collect fat disability benefits.
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Privacy Violation Has No Cost (Gay City News)
US District Judge Vaughn R. Walker has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a pilot whose license was suspended after the Federal Aviation Administration learned he had received Social Security disability benefits in the past due to HIV-related complications.
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Calif. bill would increase comp benefits (Business Insurance)
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A bill adopted by California legislators on Saturday would double workers compensation permanent disability benefits over three years.
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Schwarzenegger slaps down workers' comp bills (Los Angeles Times)
A measure that would have doubled permanent disability benefits is one of several opposed by business that are vetoed by the governor. California's employers got a big boost from a powerful ally, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, when it came to killing bills this year that sought to boost benefits and make other changes in the state's program for injured workers.
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