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California: Guardian Ad Litem After Applicant Reaches Age of Majority

California: Guardian Ad Litem After Applicant Reaches Age of...

Here's an interesting Board panel decision about a long-standing guardian ad litem who continued to represent the applicant after that party reached the age of majority. The WCAB said that the guardian...

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CWCI Examines 10-year California Workers’ Comp Payment Trends

CWCI Examines 10-year California Workers’ Comp Payment Trend...

Oakland – A new California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) study finds that average paid losses on California workers’ compensation lost-time claims fell immediately after legislative...

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2023 Edition of Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis (LexisNexis)

2023 Edition of Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis...

By Thomas A. Robinson, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis (LexisNexis) As we move through the third decade of the twenty-first century, the United States remains...

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RAND Releases Study on Alternative Payment Models for California’s Workers’ Compensation System

RAND Releases Study on Alternative Payment Models for California...

By Hon. Susan V. Hamilton, Former Assistant Secretary and Deputy Commissioner, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Industrially injured workers in California are entitled to receive...

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California Compensation Cases September 2023

California Compensation Cases September 2023

CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 88, No. 9 September 2023 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...

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California: Tribal Sovereignty: The Appeals Board Revisits the Five Factor Analysis Set Forth in Miami

California: Tribal Sovereignty: The Appeals Board Revisits the...

By Hon. Susan V. Hamilton, Former Assistant Secretary and Deputy Commissioner, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board It is well-settled law that federally recognized Indian Tribes have...

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California: Nunes II

California: Nunes II

By Hon. Robert G. Rassp Disclaimer: The material and any opinions contained in this treatise are solely those of the authors and are not the opinions of the Department of Industrial Relations, Division...

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California: Depositions of Injured Workers

California: Depositions of Injured Workers

By Hon. Robert G. Rassp, Presiding Judge, and Hon. Clint Feddersen, Workers’ Compensation Judge (This article is excerpted from California Workers' Compensation Discovery (LexisNexis).) Disclaimer...

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The Grand Bargain & Presumptions: Are Some Workers More Equal Than Others?

The Grand Bargain & Presumptions: Are Some Workers More Equal...

By Richard B. Rubenstein, Esq., Livingston, NJ Will COVID-19 Presumptions and IARC Monograph#132 Be Game-changers? The original Grand Bargain of workers’ compensation played no favorites: All...

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California Compensation Cases August 2023

California Compensation Cases August 2023

CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 88, No. 8 August 2023 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...

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