By Hon. Susan V. Hamilton, Former Assistant Secretary and Deputy Commissioner, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board A January 2023 issue of the Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter...
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...
Here’s the first batch of advanced postings for the January 2015 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases.
Lexis.com and Lexis Advance subscribers can link to the cases to read the complete headnotes and summaries.
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Contra Costa County, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, David Glenn Brown, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Evidence—Medical Evidence—WCAB’s Duty to Develop Record—WCAB ordered further development of medical record through appointment of regular physician pursuant to Labor Code § 5701 after WCJ issued findings and order in which she found that applicant did not meet burden of proving that he suffered compensable psychiatric injury because medical reports submitted by applicant were insufficient to prove that actual events of applicant’s employment predominantly caused his injury, and, additionally, that allegedly injurious actions taken by applicant’s supervisors were not lawful, nondiscriminatory, good-faith personnel actions pursuant to Labor Code § 3208.3(h), and WCAB concluded that…
Joyce Simon, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, County of Orange, PSI, administered by York Risk Services Group, Inc., Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance.
Petitions for Reconsideration—Successive Petitions—WCAB dismissed applicant’s petition for reconsideration that it found was successive petition raising same issues as already resolved by WCAB in final orders, including…
Controlled Health Management, Inc., Jerome Welch, Petitioners v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, American Racing, Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc., Cleto Morales, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Lien Claims—Filing Frivoulous Letters of Representation—Sanctions—WCAB imposed $1,000 sanctions on petitioner Controlled Health Management for filing frivolous letters of representation of lien claimants in cases of two different applicants, when WCAB found that hearing representative for petitioner, Jerome Welch, filed letters of representation on behalf of…