NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation
| Date: | Thursday, May 6, 1999 |
| Time | 10:00 am until business is completed |
| Place: | Department of Consumer Affairs 400 "R" Street First Floor Hearing Room Sacramento, California |
I. Call to Order / Minutes from the February 26, 1999 meeting
Kristen Schwenkmeyer,
Chair
II. A Report from the Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau
David Bellusci,
Executive Vice President and Chief Actuary, WCIRB
III. A Treating Physicians Perspective on the Workers
Compensation Treating Presumption
Phil Wagner, MD,
Humboldt Occupational & Environmental Medicine
IV. A Brief Report on Practice under the "Baseball
Arbitration" Provisions of Labor Code §4065
C. L. Swezey, CHSWC
Legal Consultant
V. Status Report on the Workers Compensation Information System
(WCIS)
Jim Bellows, Division of Workers
Compensation
VI. Information Presentation on the Initiative for Work and Health
John W. Frank, PhD, Visiting Professor, UC
Berkeley
Robert C. Spear, PhD, Professor and Director
for the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, UC Berkeley
Juliann Sum, Esq., MS, Labor Occupational
Health Program, UC Berkeley
Niklas Krause, MD, PhD, MPH, Project Director,
Public Health Institute, Berkeley
VII. Update and Discussion Regarding Commission Studies and New
Proposals
Christine Baker, Executive Officer
VIII. Other Business / Public Questions / Comments
IX. Adjournment