AIA Voices Cost Worry On Calif. WC Plan

NU Online News Service, Feb. 1, 1:45 p.m. EST?The deal struck yesterday between legislative leaders and Calif. Gov. Gray Davis for a workers' compensation package, including a $2.5 billion benefits component, should include a cost savings component, an insurers' organization said.

With details of the plan still unclear, the American Insurance Association, based in Washington, D.C. commented today that the measure announced by Democratic legislative leadership "was negotiated with labor and trial lawyers behind closed doors."

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