CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 88, No. 5 May 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...
By Hon. Susan V. Hamilton, Former Assistant Secretary and Deputy Commissioner, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board In 2022 there were 7,490 wildfires in California. They burned 362,455 acres...
By Christopher Mahon Should temporary workers be treated separately under workers’ compensation law due to additional employment and income risks they may incur after workplace injuries? A new study...
Here's a noteworthy panel decision where a family member conveyed essential information to the AME on behalf of the injured employee. The Lexis headnote is below. CA - NOTEWORTHY PANEL DECISIONS...
Oakland, CA – Part II of a California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) research series on low- volume/high-cost drugs used to treat California injured workers identifies three Dermatological drugs...
Applicant’s Cumulative Trauma Claim Not Time Barred: August Cal. Comp. Cases (7/27/2016)
Here’s the latest batch of advanced postings for the July 2016 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases.
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Illinois Midwest Insurance Agency, Inc., on behalf of Star Insurance Company, insurer for Pan Pacific Printing Press, Inc., Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, David Whitt, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Statute of Limitations—Specific and Cumulative Injuries—WCAB rescinded WCJ’s finding that applicant machine operator’s Application for Adjudication of Claim filed on 10/3/2013 was barred by statute of limitations in Labor Code § 5405(a) because it was filed more than one year after applicant suffered specific injury on 1/4/2012, when applicant originally alleged cumulative trauma from 1/4/2009 to 1/4/2010 (later amended to allege cumulative trauma from 1/4/2012 to 1/4/2013), but stipulated at trial to specific injury on 1/4/2012 to conform to report of qualified medical evaluator David Broderick, M.D., who found that applicant suffered specific injury on 1/4/2012 while loading postcards into machine at work, and WCAB found that…
City of Guadalupe, PSI, administered by York Risk Services Group, Inc., Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Robert Ortega, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Credit—Administrative Leave Payments—WCAB affirmed WCJ’s finding that defendant was not entitled to credit against applicant police officer’s temporary disability benefits for payments made to applicant while he was on paid administrative leave, when WCAB found…
Alexandra Sanchez, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Sutter General Hospital, Sutter Health, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Injury AOE/COE—WCAB held that applicant phlebotomist did not prove she sustained industrial injury as claimed on 1/4/2010, when WCAB found…