CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 89, No. 7 July 2024 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...
Havanis v. Calif. Dept. of Transportation (Board Panel Decision) By Hon. Colleen Casey, Former Commissioner, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board I. Medical apportionment is not the...
By Robert G. Rassp, author of The Lawyer’s Guide to the AMA Guides and California Workers’ Compensation (LexisNexis) Disclaimer: The material and any opinions contained in this treatise are...
Oakland, CA – Private self-insured claim volume in the California workers' compensation system fell 9.5% in 2023, producing the biggest year-to-year decline in private self-insured claim frequency...
By Hon. Susan V. Hamilton, Former Assistant Secretary and Deputy Commissioner, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board No matter the source of your media consumption, it seems that the topic...
Here’s another batch of advanced postings for the January 2016 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases.
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James Yarber, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, City of Exeter, PSI, Acclamation Insurance Management Services, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Injury to Psyche AOE/COE—Good-Faith Personnel Action Defense—WCAB held that applicant city police officer did not sustain injury AOE/COE to his psyche in period ending 9/20/2006 because his injury was caused by employer’s lawful non-discriminatory good-faith personnel actions, and that, therefore, defense of Labor Code § 3208.3(h) applied to bar claim, when WCAB found that…
Sara Montenegro, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Nelson Martinez, Amador Estrada, Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust Fund, Juan Ledesma, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Petitions for Writ of Review—Time to File—Dismissal—Court of Appeal dismissed petition for writ of review not filed within time limits of Labor Code § 5950, when petitioner was…