NU Online News Service, Dec.10, 8:39 a.m. EST

California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that workers' compensation insurance rates in the state will be relatively stable and increase by an average of only 4 percent in 2010.

Last month the commissioner rejected an insurance industry request to increase his advisory Workers' Compensation Claims Cost Benchmark by nearly 25 percent.

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