Noting the considerable deference allowed to the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board when it comes to reconciling any differences in medical evidence, the Supreme Court of Alaska affirmed a decision that denied a former employee’s claim... Read More

Here’s the next batch of advanced postings for the March 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. Kyong... Read More

By Stephen Embry, Embry and Neusner, Groton, Connecticut In the study of the law styled jurisprudence, there are many schools of thought. Some students of the law believe that past cases predict the future and that precedent must prevail. In this... Read More

A company president tripped over a telephone cord at work but failed to prove her radius fractures arose from work and not from falling out of bed the following morning. The court in Bond v Site Line Surveying , WD 72142 (Mo. App. 10-12-10), agreed that... Read More

By Stephen Embry, Embry and Neusner, Groton, Connecticut In the study of the law styled jurisprudence, there are many schools of thought. Some students of the law believe that past cases predict the future and that precedent must prevail. In this... Read More

CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 77 No. 5 May 2012 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

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

Here's the first batch of advanced postings for the October 2010 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com subscribers can link to the cases below. Burrtec Waste Industries, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Debbie Collinwood... Read More

Here’s the next batch of advanced postings for the March 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. Kyong... Read More

Here’s the third batch of advanced postings for the August 2011 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com subscribers can link to the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2011 LexisNexis. All rights reserved. City of Santa Clara,... Read More

Here’s the second batch of advanced postings for the November 2010 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com subscribers can link to the case below to read the complete headnotes and summary. Paul Anfuso v. W.C.A.B., Beverly La Cumbre Convalescent... Read More

Here's the first batch of advanced postings for the upcoming September issue of California Compensation Cases. Lexis.com subscribers can link to the "writ denied" cases to read the complete headnotes and summaries. Interwoven, Inc., American... Read More

The Second District Court of Appeals has provided us with some guidance, not a lot but a little, on what is becoming a thorny issue in many workers’ compensation cases that of attendant care expenses. In State Farm v W.C.A.B. (Pearson) the Court... Read More

Here's the fourth batch of advanced postings for the June 2011 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com subscribers can link to the complete headnotes and summaries. County of San Bernardino, PSI, self-administered by San Bernardino County Risk... Read More

At a seminar during the recent DWC 19th Annual Educational Conference in Oakland, we heard opinions about interpreting Ogilvie , rating permanent disability, and rebutting the 2005 Permanent Disability Rating Schedule. Although Ogilvie did not give us... Read More