A long-time firefighter’s unsuccessful earlier claim that he was entitled to TTD benefits for five weeks of lost time in 2011, during which he recovered from the surgical removal of a malignant melanoma on his shoulder, did not mean that a subsequent... Read More
Here’s the first batch of advanced postings for the June 2012 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com subscribers can link to the cases to read the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2012 LexisNexis. All rights reserved. Los Angeles... Read More
Lately, I have been happy to hear from several of you, making my job easy highlighting cases right and left and providing me with insightful commentary. The latest in this stream of personal good fortune is Clayton Bunting....one of my dear ones from... Read More
CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 80 No. 3 March 2015 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 Denied Judicial Review CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE... Read More
CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 82 No. 2 Feb 2017 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 Denied Judicial Review CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE... Read More
LexisNexis has picked the top “noteworthy” panel decisions issued by the California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board during the period January through June 2015. The list features a number of split-panel decisions, including bonus... Read More
A New York trial court properly denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ personal injury suit on the ground of collateral estoppel, where the issue of whether the injured plaintiff sustained an acquired traumatic brain injury due to... Read More
Quoting Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law and observing that the test of liability in the workers' compensation setting is not the relation of an individual's fault or negligence to an event, as it is within the tort arena, but rather... Read More
First, a shout out to my dear husband Tom. Today is our eighth wedding anniversary. And yes, you could say it is indeed better "the second time around." To borrow from my wedding invitation: "Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot... Read More
By Robert G. Rassp, Esq. © Copyright 2013 LexisNexis. All rights reserved. Excerpts of this article will appear in a future edition of Rassp & Herlick, California Workers' Compensation Law . Attention Lexis Online Subscribers... Read More
I know the last post we had a bit of fun with the claimant’s name….Phil. A. Minion. Not to be confused with filet mignon. And on the heels of that little bit of mirth comes an offering from Chris McGarry of Elzufon, Austin, Tarlov & Mondell... Read More
Here’s the first batch of advanced postings for the August 2012 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com subscribers can link to the case to read the complete headnotes and summary. © Copyright 2012 LexisNexis. All rights reserved. Sharon... Read More
Okay, I am thinking that UR rulings of non-certification have about as much sticking power as a defective Post-It note. These have been busy weeks for your humble blogger and I owe y'all an update on something. Well, UR is the subject du jour and... Read More
Here's the second batch of advanced postings for the October 2010 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com subscribers can link to the full headnotes and summaries for these cases. Granite State Insurance Company, administered by Chartis Claim,... Read More