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      • THE CAMEL CITY
        04/29/08
        I grew up in the Camel City. (Maybe that's why I went out of my way to ride one of those critters in Marrakech at the foot of the Atlas mountains and why I ventured to Dubai and the Tunisian Sahara).

        My Camel City was where they made Salems. And Winstons.

        My alma mater i

      • I HATE HIGHWAY 238
        04/28/08
        AC/DC had its Highway to Hell. AC/DC's highway had no stop signs and speed limits.

        Mine does. Here in Alameda County we have Highway 238, a snarled two lane connector joining multiple four lane freeways that link the Bay Area to inland cities.

        Over the years I've was

      • ABC COVERAGE OF THE PERATA PD BILL
        04/24/08
        Don Perata's PD increase bill passed a California senate committe vote yesterday.

        Here's a video piece on the issue done by ABC news reporter Nannette Miranda:
        http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sectio

        Stay tuned.

        Julius Young
        http://www.boxer

      • SCIF FOR SALE?
        04/23/08
        Could SCIF actually be sold?

        SCIF is the California's largest workers' comp insurer. A quasi-public insurer, SCIF just a few years ago had around half of the market share for comp in the state. That market share is probably down to the 20% range now.

        Rumors are circu

      • NOT JUST IN THE ABSTRACT
        04/21/08
        Senator Don Perata is introducing another bill to increase compensation to workers who sustain permanent disabilities.

        As sure as the swallows return to San Capistrano, you can be sure that
        entrenched California business interests will issue press releases attacking
        the PD incre

      • WEEK'S WRAP UP
        04/18/08
        I've been on the road this week, so this space has been dark for a few days. From afar a few things caught my eye.

        State Senate Pro Tem Don Perata is unveiling his proposed PD increase bill in the next few days. That'll be the third try in 3 years. Guv Schwarzenegger has twice v

      • TGIF
        04/11/08
        The weekend is nigh.

        Workers start fidgeting in their cubicles and factories.For some the weekend might normally mean salmon fishing. Not this year. What to do? An adventure to the mall with that trusty plastic card? That great American tradition of shop til you drop is fading, a victim o

      • BENSON BRIEFS
        04/10/08
        It's a brief-fest!

        The stakes couldn't be higher. Did the 2004 reform wipe out Wilkinson?
        If each little injury a worker has suffered is rated separately rather than lumped together to determine overall effect, the savings for insurers will be huge. That's the issue in

      • THE FIONA MA PAID SICK LEAVE BILL
        04/07/08
        Later this week I'll be doing a recap on the Top 10 developments in workers' comp for the first quarter of 2008.

        But today, let's look at an important employment related issue: paid sick leave.

        Millions of California employees have no paid sick leave. If they

      • DYING FOR COVERAGE
        04/04/08
        Greeting from Sherman Oaks. I'm here in L.A. attending meetings of the California State Bar's workers' compensation subcommittee.

        Next week I'll be doing a recap of the Top 10 developments in California workers' comp in the first quarter of 2008.

        But ca

      • ADDING STRAW TO THE CAMEL'S BACK
        04/03/08
        Some of the nation's premier safety net programs are looking quite creaky.

        That would be Social Security Disability and SSI (known as "Title II" and "Title XVI" respectively). These are the Federal programs for disabled workers (SSD) and other disabled individual

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