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Karen C. Yotis, Esq., Feature Resident Columnist of the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter , provides insights into workplace issues and the nuts and bolts of the workers' comp world. FACING THE TOUGH QUESTIONS The centennial...

A report from the California Workers’ Compensation & Risk Conference, Sept. 10-12, 2014, Dana Point, CA By David Bryan Leonard, Esq. Without pause, Christine Baker, Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations, took the...

In Loynachan v. County of Los Angeles , ADJ7144283, the WCJ held that the applicant, who was permanently totally disabled as a result of a 10/1/2009 industrial injury, was entitled to continue receiving 24 sessions of behavioral psychotherapy each year...

At a recent workers’ comp conference in Southern California, WCAB Commissioner Kathy Zalewski noted that the WCAB commissioners had been doing a bit of “crocodile wrestling” over Dubon . I’ve seen crocodile wrestling in Thailand...

At the California Workers’ Compensation Defense Attorneys’ Association 2013 Winter Conference, a panel led by the Honorable Anne Horelly, defense attorney Sharon Renzi and applicant’s attorney John Reff presented practical and procedural...

According to a study recently released by Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), California enjoyed a five percent decrease in medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in 2013 on a year-over-year basis, likely reflecting...

By Robert G. Rassp, Esq. © Copyright 2013 LexisNexis. All rights reserved. Excerpted from the upcoming 2014 Edition of The Lawyer’s Guide to the AMA Guides and California Workers’ Compensation . As part of the comprehensive workers’...

The legal community posed many questions after SB 863 was enacted. One of the more pressing issues centered around how the WCAB would apply the new limitations governing reimbursement for home health care services. > Would the limitations only apply...

By David Bryan Leonard, Esq. Attention Lexis Online Subscribers: Citations link to lexis.com. Bracketed citations link to Lexis Advance. Workers’ compensation injuries can occur from a specific incident or be caused by cumulative events. ...

Attention Lexis Online Subscribers: Citations link to lexis.com. Bracketed citations link to Lexis Advance . On September 30, 2013, a panel of three commissioners with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) denied a request to reconsider...

Rumors of the death of psychiatric permanent disability in post-1/1/2013 date of injury cases have been greatly exaggerated In Madson v. Michael J. Cavaletto Ranches, 2017 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS --, the WCAB rescinded the WCJ’s award of 39...

Shortly after the second Second District Court of Appeals provided the defense community with a welcome decision in Batten v. WCAB , the First Appellate District followed up with its much anticipated decision in Stevens v. WCAB , the first constitutional...

Here’s the first batch of advanced postings for September 2014 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com and Lexis Advance subscribers can link to the case to read the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2014 LexisNexis. All rights...

By David Bryan Leonard, Esq. Citations link to lexis.com unless otherwise noted. All bracketed cites link to Lexis Advance. In one of the first panel decisions issued after the implementation of the $100 lien filing fee, a WCAB panel has dismissed...

A new analysis of independent medical review decisions issued in 2014 suggests that the medical dispute resolution process mandated by the workers’ compensation reform bill enacted in 2012 is working to assure that the treatment provided to California...