California Cities Working to Control Workers’ Comp Costs

SAN FRANCISCO -- -By Nils Wright, Workers' Comp ExecutiveLos Angeles, assailed during the last few years for cutting its safety staff and then watching its workers' comp costs bloom, is trying to mend its ways.The city's new workers' compensation administrator, Lois Pace, has asked the city council to fund the hiring of 14 more safety administrators."We are asking for a full safety program with 18 employees," Pace said. "But I think the council members are looking at doing something in terms of p