By Hon. Colleen Casey, Former Commissioner, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Just when you thought the right of “due process” was on the brink of destruction, the legislature...
By Hon. Susan V. Hamilton, Former Assistant Secretary and Deputy Commissioner, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Over the past several decades California has implemented broad legislative...
CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 89, No. 9 September 2024 A Report of En Banc and Significant Panel Decisions of the WCAB and Selected Court Opinions of Related Interest, With a Digest of WCAB Decisions...
By Thomas A. Robinson, co-author, Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law Editorial Note: All section references below are to Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, unless otherwise indicated...
By Hon. Colleen Casey, Former Commissioner, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board One of the most common reasons evaluating physicians flunk the apportionment validity test is due to their...
Here’s the third batch of advanced postings for March 2015 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases.
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Credit—Overpayment of Temporary Disability Indemnity—Penalties—WCAB, reversing WCJ in split panel decision, held that defendant underpaid applicant’s permanent total disability award by prematurely taking credit against permanent disability for its alleged overpayment of temporary disability and was thereby subject to 25 percent penalty under Labor Code § 5814, when panel majority concluded that…