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Article: Rehabilitation workers sweat out new state measure: bill would impose payment caps for workers' comp. (higher vocational rehabilitation fees likely to result from workers' compensation legislation) (Special Report: Health Care)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
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- February 15, 1993
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A bill drafted by California Senator William R. Leonard Jr., D-Upland, which calls for a drastic overhaul of the state's workers' compensation system, threatens to put hundreds of Los Angeles County vocational rehabilitation workers out of business, local industry sources told the Business Journal.
Senate Bill 55 is being evaluated by the Senate Industrial Relations Committee, and had not yet been forwarded to the full Senate as of Feb. 3.
Thorv Hessellund, the Los Angeles-based spokesman for the California Association of Rehabilitation Professionals, said the strict payment caps in SB 55 would make rehabilitation programs unaffordable for 75 percent of the ...