I guess he has locked down his support from trial lawyers ... as if that was ever in doubt.
Maybe not. In my state it's the exact OPPOSITE.
In my state, employers are generally protected against additional claims by any worker who collects on a worker's compensation claim. Trial lawyers don't fare well in this type of case for this very reason. That's why the lawyers who advertise their services to people who have been denied their WCI claims are generally the same low-rent mutants who offer divorces for $499. These losers aren't even good enough to be ambulance-chasing personal injury lawyers.
I'd have to look at California's lose more closely, but it may very well be that Newsom's edict does more to PROTECT employers than anything else.