by John P. Kamin (March 27, 2020)
Bradford & Barthel, LLP has presented two webinars this week entitled, “The Pandemic, the Claims Desk and You: How Will COVID-19 Impact W/C?“, presented by B&B partners Don Barthel, Louis Larres and John Kamin. If…
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by Michael P. Burns (March 26, 2020)
California and the world are undergoing an unprecedented shutdown of the economy as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic, and its impact is being felt in the workers’ compensation system. Insurers are facing highly unusual…
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by Michael P. Burns (March 23, 2020)
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed the issue of workers’ compensation claims for infectious diseases back on insurers’ radar. This area of California workers’ compensation is less familiar to most insurers, in contrast to the more…
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by John P. Kamin (March 9, 2020)
A California lawmaker has introduced a bill proposal that would expand legislative presumptions that a plethora of medical conditions are compensable for hospital workers, which raises significant questions about how it would affect litigation of…
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by Louis A. Larres (March 3, 2020)
The pandemic of COVID-19 coronavirus has the workers’ compensation community asking how one determines compensability of a virus with a source of infection that could literally be anywhere and everywhere. Employers, carriers, and administrators are…
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by John P. Kamin (February 28, 2020)
One of the most important things to do when evaluating a claim for a specific date of injury is to determine whether the employee had frolicked or detoured from the course and scope of employment….
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by John P. Kamin (February 4, 2020)
Since Gov. Gavin Newsom approved a new law making it easier to classify gig economy workers as “employees,” a number of new legislative and legal challenges to the law have popped up that could limit…
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(January 21, 2020)
by Patrick C. Gorman – Over the past two-and-a-half years the industry has been regressively bogged down in litigation over Non-IBR Medical Legal Disputes. Despite the codification of a Non-IBR Medical Legal Dispute Process in SB…
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by John P. Kamin (January 15, 2020)
The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board issued an notice of intention to release an en banc decision that would invalidate a rule that allows the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation to resolve supplemental…
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by John P. Kamin (January 14, 2020)
The Workers Compensation Appeals Board resolved confusion about litigation stemming from copy service lien claimants’ petitions for non-IBR disputes in an en banc decision. The WCAB’s en banc decision in the case of Ashley Colamonico…
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