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Comp News - Media Advisories
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CAAA is pleased with the appointment of Christine Baker to the position of Director of DIR. We will continue to work with Director Baker and her staff to solve the problems caused by the failed policies of the prior Administration. We will continue to...
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Governor Brown Announces Appointments Ronnie Caplane, 63, of Oakland, has been appointed chair of the Workers Compensation Appeals Board, where she has served as a member since 2003. She was a freelance writer and columnist for the Piedmonter and the...
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Two-Year Temporary Disability Limit Harms Severely Injured Workers: Extend Insurance for the Seriously Injured; Assembly Insurance Committee to Consider AB 947 (Solorio) Temporary Disability insurance frequently ends before recovery from serious work...
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Monday, June 8, 2009 Contact: Steve Hopcraft, 916/457-5546; Steve@hopcraft.com Injured Workers, Labor, Doctors, Consumers to Oppose Workers Compensation Insurance Rate Increase Leaders of labor unions, consumers, injured workers and their advocates, and...
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SACRAMENTO, CA – Todd McFarren, the president of the California Applicants' Attorneys Association (CAAA), whose members represent Californians injured on the job, said today that the workers’ compensation insurance companies’ proposed...
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On Wednesday, March 25th, Sen. Mark DeSaulnier will present to the Senate Industrial Relations Committee his SB 145, sponsored by the California Applicants Attorneys Association (CAAA) to ban race, gender and age discrimination in awarding disability...
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Sacramento, CA - Injured workers' advocates today questioned the Schwarzenegger Administration's "highly irregular and inappropriate" attempts to influence the outcome of a pending Workers Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) decision allowing...
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News Media Advisory: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com Injured Worker’s Family to Lose Temporary Disability: Insurance Carrier’s Delays of Medical Care to Put Sacramento Family Out in the Cold...
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Do You Want To Help Yourself And Others So That They Will Get What’s Fair? Well, Here Is Your Chance. The Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, the person who is responsible for changes in the way disabilities are...
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NEWS MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Steve@hopcraft.com Contact: Steve Hopcraft, 916/457-5546; Steve@hopcraft.com ASSEMBLY INSURANCE COMMITTEE TO VOTE ON DISABILITY BENEFITS BIAS BAN, PERMANENT DISABILITY COMPENSATION; Senate Rules Committee...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Contact: Steve Hopcraft, 916/457-5546; Steve@hopcraft.com San Diego Union Tribune State Senate alters limits on workers' comp ASSOCIATED PRESS March 11, 2008 SACRAMENTO – The state Senate approved...
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NEWS MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Contact: Steve Hopcraft, 916/457-5546; Steve@hopcraft.com BILL WOULD BAN BIAS IN DISABILITY BENEFITS: Migden Bill to Prohibit Insurers from Penalizing Women, Ethnic Minorities, Older Workers; Millions...
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NEWS MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Contact: Steve Hopcraft, 916/457-5546; Steve@hopcraft.com Appeals Court To Hear Discrimnation Case Injured workers, AARP: Insurers Penalizing Women, Older Workers, Millions of Dollars withheld each Year...
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NEWS MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Thursday, June 9, 2005 Contact: Steve Hopcraft (916) 457-5546 Steve@hopcraft.com What's Up with Worker's Comp? Injured Workers, Experts to Brief News Media After a year of misery, unprecedented in its harm to injured workers...
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For Immediate Release Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Contacts: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546, cell 916/956-4592 SchWARzenegger’s Broken Promises to Injured Workers & Their Families PROTEST - 1 Year of Misery - Workers’ Memorial Day VotersInjuredatWork...
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