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 second batch of advanced postings for July 2014 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases.
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Martin Reiner, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Pelican Products, Inc., United States Fire Insurance Company, Rosa Palafox, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Sanctions—WCAB ordered defendant’s former attorney to pay three $2,500 sanctions, for total sum of $7,500, pursuant to Labor Code § 5813 and 8 Cal. Code Reg. § 10561, when WCAB found that defendant’s former attorney’s skeletal Petition for Reconsideration of WCJ’s decision included no explanation or evidentiary basis for his assertions as required by Labor Code § 5902 and 8 Cal. Code Reg. § 10842, and alleged no facts to support…
Orlando Navarro, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, American Service Industries, Inc./American Services Industry, Zurich North America, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Qualified Medical Evaluators—Discipline—Court of Appeal denied applicant’s petition for writ of review challenging WCAB’s finding that applicant/security guard sustained no cumulative industrial injury to his neck, back, upper and lower extremities, vision, and psyche, based on applicant’s testimony and reports issued by panel qualified medical evaluator on 9/5/2012 and 11/15/2012, when applicant contended that WCAB erred in relying on panel qualified medical evaluator’s reports to find…
San Joaquin Community Hospital, PSI, administered by Adventist Health, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Barbara Clark, aka Barbara Diefenbach, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Medical Treatment Awards—Further Medical Treatment—WCAB awarded applicant nurse further medical treatment for 2/16/1994 injury AOE/COE to head, teeth, jaw (including TMJ), neck, psyche, and in form of fibromyalgia and headaches, resulting from injury when patient kicked applicant, when WCAB found that…
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