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Personal Injury & Torts

Oct. 15, 2009

Governor Signs Workers' Comp Law

The bill closes a loophole an insurer used to deny workers' compensation benefits to the family of a woman murdered while she was on the job.

By Dhyana Levey

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation closing a loophole used by an insurance carrier to deny workers' compensation benefits to the family of a woman murdered while she was on the job.

The legislation stems from the slaying of worker Taneka Talley, then 26, at a Dollar Tree store in Fairfield in 2006. Tommy Joe Thompson, convicted of the killing in April, told his thera...

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