Flash Report: Workers’ Comp Bill Could Be Done Deal by February

The California Legislature with prodding from the governors office is looking to move fast on a new workers comp benefit increase and reform bill and a pair of benefit bills could be sent to Gov. Gray Davis office as early as this week.Sources at the Capitol say that the bill could contain much of the same language that last year was in two bills that Davis vetoed: Senate Bill 71 and Assembly Bill 1176. The one provision that would be dropped is the notion of retroactive benefit increa