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 latest batch of advanced postings for the Nov 2016 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases.
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County of Riverside, PSI, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Alex Simmons, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Presumption of Industrial Causation—Heart Trouble—Peace Officers—WCAB rescinded WCJ’s finding that applicant deputy sheriff suffered industrial heart/cardiovascular injury and hypertension from 7/1/2004 to 2/9/2015 causing 46 percent permanent disability after apportionment, and concluded that WCJ erred in not applying heart presumption in Labor Code § 3212.5 and its anti-attribution provisions, when panel qualified medical evaluator…
James Pearl, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, City of Los Angeles, PSI, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Petitions for Writ of Review—Final Orders—Good Faith Personnel Actions—Court of Appeal dismissed petition for writ of review because petitioner was not appealing final order, decision, or award of WCAB, as required by Labor Code §§ 5900, 5901, 5950, when WCAB found that applicant…
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