Board Panel Opinion Provides a Succinct Explanation By Hon. Susan V. Hamilton, Former Assistant Secretary and Deputy Commissioner, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board The process for...
CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 89, No. 4 April 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 Hon. Susan V. Hamilton, Former Assistant Secretary and Deputy Commissioner, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Several months ago, an article in LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation...
By William Tappin, Esq., Law Offices of Tappin & Associates, Sierra Madre, CA There has been a lot of confusion with respect to whether ERISA preempts state laws regarding numerous programs, including...
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...
Here’s the third batch of advanced postings for April 2015 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases.
Lexis.com and Lexis Advance subscribers can link to the cases to read the complete headnotes and summaries.
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Tina Solano, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Wal-Mart Associates, Inc., American Home Assurance, administered by York Risk Services Group, Inc., Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Permanent Disability—Substantial Evidence—WCAB rescinded WCJ’s finding that applicant suffered 82 percent permanent disability from admitted carpal tunnel injury, as well as injury to her upper extremities and cervical spine, and returned matter to trial level for new permanent disability rating based on findings of applicant’s primary treating physician instead of on opinion of qualified medical evaluator on which WCJ had relied, when WCAB concluded that…
Employers Insurance Company of Wausau (administered by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company), insurer for Guy F. Atkinson Construction, Petitioners v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Turner Construction, Inc., Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Dwight Parker, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Injury AOE/COE—Multiple Employers—WCAB held that applicant hard rock miner sustained cumulative trauma injury AOE/COE to his lungs in period 1978 through 3/2008 from exposure to dust, fumes, and other airborne materials, when WCAB found that latency period was...