Improving Dispute Resolution for California's Injured Workers: Executive Summary - Softcover

Pace, Nicholas M.; Etc.; Et Al

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0833033484 ISBN 13: 9780833033482

Publisher: RAND, 2003

Synopsis

For more than 20 years, the California workers' compensation courts have been criticized for being slow, expensive and procedurally inconsistent. Undertaken in response to these concerns, this report suggests that the courts' problems stem largely from, amongst other things, severe understaffing.

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Synopsis

For more than two decades, the California workers' compensation courts have been criticized for being slow, expensive, and procedurally inconsistent. In response to these concerns, the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation engaged the RAND Institute for Civil Justice to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the courts. The research team found that the courts' problems stem largely from severe understaffing, the failure to upgrade their management information system, and a lack of clear guidance and coordination in the governing rules and procedures.

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Analyzes the causes of delays, high cost, and inconsistency in the California workers' compensation courts

About this edition

• Publisher: RAND
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0833033484
• ISBN 13: 9780833033482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 35