The California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) will conduct a one-day case law seminar in May in both Long Beach and San Francisco to examine how recent trends in decisional law are reshaping California workers’ compensation and to discuss appropriate...
By Stephen Embry, Embry and Neusner, Groton, Connecticut The driving force of the law is fear, which promotes dispute resolution. In the ordinary course of human affairs disputes and controversies arise and are resolved informally. It is rare that the dispute...
Larson's Spotlight on Conflict of Medical Opinions, Future Medical Payments, Employer's Safety Rules, and Lump-Sum Settlement. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer for Larson's...
By John Stahl, Esq. Dr. Bogdan Savych of the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) said at the outset of his May 10, 2012 webinar entitled “Avoiding Litigation: What Can Employers, Payers and States Do” that the goals of the workers’...
Most people involved with California’s workers’ compensation system would say that over the past twenty years, the process has become increasingly litigious. There can be little question that the issues have become increasingly technical. The workers’ compensation...