The head of California's largest private sector workers' compensation carrier said he supports enactment of a measure to increase benefits for injured workers that an insurance trade group hopes to see vetoed.
Stanley Zax--president and chairman of Zenith National Insurance Company in Woodland Hills, Calif.--said yesterday he would send a letter to Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asking him to sign SB 815, which is now on his desk.
"To my view, this is good legislation," Mr. Zax said of the bill, which has drawn opposition from the American Insurance Association and other business groups.
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