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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In Coito v. State of California (2012) 54 Cal. 4th 480, the California Supreme Court, in dealing with the issue of work product privilege and the discovery of witness statements, held that: (1) a list of witnesses of whom recorded statements have been taken is not entitled to the attorney work product privilege; (2) recorded interviews of a witness conducted by an attorney is entitled to the attorney work product privilege; and (3) recorded interviews of a witness done at the direction of the attorney are entitled to the attorney work product privilege.