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 another batch of advanced postings for the January 2016 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases.
Lexis.com and Lexis Advance subscribers can link to the case to read the complete headnotes and summaries.
© Copyright 2016 LexisNexis. All rights reserved.
James Yarber, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, City of Exeter, PSI, Acclamation Insurance Management Services, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Injury to Psyche AOE/COE—Good-Faith Personnel Action Defense—WCAB held that applicant city police officer did not sustain injury AOE/COE to his psyche in period ending 9/20/2006 because his injury was caused by employer’s lawful non-discriminatory good-faith personnel actions, and that, therefore, defense of Labor Code § 3208.3(h) applied to bar claim, when WCAB found that…
Sara Montenegro, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Nelson Martinez, Amador Estrada, Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust Fund, Juan Ledesma, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Petitions for Writ of Review—Time to File—Dismissal—Court of Appeal dismissed petition for writ of review not filed within time limits of Labor Code § 5950, when petitioner was…