The U.S. Department of Labor has issued new data showing California's State Average Weekly Wage (SAWW) edged down 0.48 percent from $1,650 to $1,642 in the 12 months ending March 31, 2023. As a result...
CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 88, No. 11 November 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 Nearly two decades ago Senate Bill 899 was enacted and ushered in a...
LexisNexis has selected some recently issued noteworthy IMR decisions that illustrate the criteria that must be met to obtain authorization for a variety of different medical treatment modalities. LexisNexis...
By Hon. Susan V. Hamilton, Former Assistant Secretary and Deputy Commissioner, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Early in the COVID-19 pandemic we learned that nursing care facilities...
Here’s the latest batch of advanced postings for the November 2016 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases.
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Allegis Group, Aerotek Commercial Staffing, insured by ACE American Insurance Company, administered by ESIS, Petitioners v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Roly Brodie, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Permanent Total Disability—Substantial Evidence—WCAB, affirming decision of WCJ, held that sufficient evidence supported WCJ’s finding that applicant incurred permanent total disability as result of cumulative trauma injury to her bilateral wrists, back, bilateral shoulders, digestive system, bilateral arms, neck, psyche (including inability to sleep), and bilateral hands, while employed by defendant as production operator during 2/25/2009 to 2/25/2010, when WCAB found…
LeRhone H. Williams, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, State of California/Department of Social Services/In Home Supportive Services, legally uninsured, administered by York Risk Services Group, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance
Workers’ Compensation ClaimsDismissal—Employment Relationship—WCAB granted defendant’s petition to dismiss applicant’s claim of new industrial injury on 12/5/2013 during medical evaluation by panel qualified medical evaluator evaluating applicant for 4/22/2011 industrial injury, when WCAB found…
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