by John P. Kamin (July 8, 2020)
July 5 has come and gone, meaning that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order is effectively over – or is it? Senate Bill 1159 is the new frontrunner among the four contending bills to create a…
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by Michael P. Burns (July 7, 2020)
The recently-enacted presumption of compensability for COVID-19 industrial claims raises a number of discovery issues that are seldom encountered in most workers’ compensation cases. Due to the nebulous nature of infectious diseases, particularly one as…
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by Ryan T. Alves (June 22, 2020)
As COVID-19 spread and became a global pandemic over the course of the prior life that was mere months ago, it was increasingly difficult for the parties to a California workers’ compensation claim to move…
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(June 18, 2020)
The Law Offices of Bradford and Barthel announced that Farai Alves, managing partner and conflict resolution strategist at the firm’s Oakland office, became the firm’s first chief diversity officer as of June 15. Alves has…
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by Mark S. Fletcher (June 17, 2020)
“The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to…
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by John P. Kamin (June 17, 2020)
California lawmakers are eyeing both rebuttable and conclusive presumptions that COVID-19 claims are compensable as they attempt to create a formal replacement to the rebuttable presumption that Gov. Gavin Newsom created via executive order. There…
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by Michael P. Burns (May 26, 2020)
One side effect of the coronavirus pandemic that defendants will have to face is psychiatric claims filed by applicants who allege that the fear of contracting the virus at work has caused industrial depression or…
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by Louis A. Larres (May 21, 2020)
With our lives changing daily, it is important that we keep up on the additions to California law designed to help society through these challenging times. One recent and important change in workers’ compensation law…
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by Donald R. Barthel (May 19, 2020)
Per Governor Newsom’s recent Executive Order (EO) issued on May 6th, employees who have a positive test result or diagnosis of COVID-19 within 14 days of performing work somewhere other than home at the direction…
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by Joseph D. Votroubek (May 12, 2020)
The WCAB has issued a unanimous en banc decision relaxing the rules on timely filing of trial exhibits during the current pandemic. In an en banc decision titled In Re: Covid-19 State of Emergency En…
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