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California Workers' Comp Case Roundup (6/14/2014)
Posted on 14 Jun 2014 by California Compensation Cases Staff

CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 79 No. 5 May 2014 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

Georgia: MD’s Derogatory Comment in Report That Claimant Was Threat Found Privileged, Not Libelous
Posted on 29 Jan 2016 by Larson's Spotlight

A dictated statement by a treating physician that became part of the injured worker’s claim file that said the worker had communicated threats to the physician, through an interpreter, and that the physician considered the worker to be a threat... Read More

California: The Right to Discovery vs. Privacy and Privilege
Posted on 10 Apr 2012 by Calif. WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter

Lexis.com subscribers can link to the cases, statutes, and other cites below . In Borrayo v. Tobar Industries, The Hartford Insurance, 2012 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 10 , Lisa Borrayo was working for Tobar Industries, when she sustained a cumulative... Read More

California: The Right to Discovery vs. Privacy and Privilege
Posted on 10 Apr 2012 by Calif. WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter

Lexis.com subscribers can link to the cases, statutes, and other cites below . In Borrayo v. Tobar Industries, The Hartford Insurance, 2012 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 10 , Lisa Borrayo was working for Tobar Industries, when she sustained a cumulative... Read More

California: Depositions, Anyone?
Posted on 26 Aug 2011 by Robert G. Rassp, Esq.

By Robert G. Rassp, Esq. Recently, a defense attorney took the deposition of an Applicant who had filed two claims – an admitted specific injury and a denied cumulative trauma case. The deposition itself went smoothly (no one overtly lied about... Read More

California: Privilege Issues In Workers’ Compensation Cases
Posted on 18 Mar 2011 by Howard Stevens

Your Protections Generally speaking there is very little that is not discoverable by a party to a litigated California Workers’ Compensation case. The theory is that open discovery with “all cards on the table” for both sides will... Read More