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How to fix state's Kafka-esque workers' comp system. (Opinion).(workers compensation )

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From: San Diego Business Journal
Date: 20030602
Author:Dr. Grisolia, James Santiago

By day, Franz Kafka revolutionized industrial safety from his office in Prague; by night, he wrote definitive fiction on the nightmares of modern life.

Even now, his name evokes helpless wretches trapped in vast, bureaucratic labyrinths. Tell any employer or injured worker that the workers' compensation situation in California is Kafka-esque, and he or she will immediately agree.

At $15 billion yearly, the California worker's compensation industry has exploded, with employer costs rising at twice the rate of general health premiums. California workers' compensation rates, ...

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