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Committee advances plan to ease pathway for cannabis employers to secure workers' compensation coverage
Summary
AB 1209 would authorize the administrative director of the Division of Workers' Compensation to contract third-party benefit coordinators and establish a network of insurers and service providers to expand workers' compensation availability to cannabis employers and their employees.
Assemblymember Michelle Rodriguez presented AB 1209 to create a convenient pathway for cannabis employers to obtain workers' compensation coverage for employees, including those provided through staffing agencies. The bill would authorize the administrative director of the Division of Workers' Compensation to contract with third-party agents to serve as benefit coordinators, establish a network of licensed carriers willing to underwrite workers' compensation for the cannabis industry, and maintain…
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