Louis A. Larres

A petition for reconsideration is an inappropriate remedy to a judge’s order taking a matter off-calendar, according to a new significant panel decision

The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board has issued a new en banc decision clarifying how applicant’s attorneys may rebut the Permanent Disability Rating Schedule

The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board threatened to sanction an applicant’s attorney and a hearing representative up to $20,000 apiece for filing petitions for

The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board’s 60-day deadline to act on timely petitions for reconsideration is tolled when an administrative error thwarts the 60-day

The California Supreme Court denied review of a published decision finding the Salvation Army was not the employer of a man who was

The fact that the now-repealed Covid-19 presumptions did not contain a savings clause means that there are no statutory presumptions for pending Covid-19

The 2nd District Court of Appeal issued a published decision on Tuesday concluding that The Salvation Army is not the employer of a

The defendants in the case of Earley v. WCAB are likely to ask the state Supreme Court to review the 2nd District Court

The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board must stop its grant-for-study practice, but is not required to issue a final decision on the merits within

Louis Larres & John Kamin discussed how there is no statutory provision for "vocational apportionment" and that vocational rehabilitation experts must "carefully consider"

Employers do not owe a duty of care to prevent the spread of “take-home Covid” among employees’ family members, the California Supreme Court

Vocational rehabilitation experts may no longer simply ignore physicians’ valid medical apportionment findings and substitute it with “vocational apportionment,” the Workers’ Compensation Appeals

Tired of depressing international news? Exhausted by continuing talk of COVID? Believe it or not, there are lots of other things going on

B&B Equity Partner, Louis Larres, provided a review and discussion of strategies to ensure that you put your best case forward in order

Unprecedented times call for unprecedented action. Two weeks after California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a state of emergency as a result of the

With our lives changing daily, it is important that we keep up on the additions to California law designed to help society through

The pandemic of COVID-19 coronavirus has the workers’ compensation community asking how one determines compensability of a virus with a source of infection

California’s current rules and regulations already contain an existing interpreter fee schedule and interpreters who fail to request a second review of carriers’

Following the 2013 decision in Kite v. Athens Administrators (2013) 78 CCC 213 (writ denied), applicant’s attorneys have attempted to take full advantage

So trial didn’t quite turn out the way you expected? Have you received a final order? An interim order? What exactly is this

Don’t you just love it when, after waiting many months to get in to see a QME or AME (and after a review

by Louis Larres, Esq. and Scott Rountree, JD I’m sure you’ve often wondered during a quiet moment alone, “Hey, are these Medical Provider

When I graduated from college, I never thought I would have any real need for what I had studied. After all, that was