Calif. Workers’ Comp Reform Dominates Conference

Senate Bill 863, or the more popular usage “SB 863,” was the phrase at the beginning, end or middle of many-a-conversation during the California Workers’ Compensation & Risk Conference on Wednesday. The four-day conference drew several hundred people who deal with the workers’ comp topic, and SB 863 may have been the topic foremost on everyone’s minds after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a reform bill on Tuesday, a new law that promises to give nearly $750 million in increased benefits for injured workers and reduce system wide costs.