As a workers’ compensation defense attorney, one of things that fascinates me the most is how things can get done with the help of the proverbial enemy of defendants – the “applicant’s attorney.” Though we…
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Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. It was 1945, WWII had been won, and our soldiers were returning home—many with crippling, permanent disabilities (PD). Out of this history sprang California’s Subsequent…
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Summaries and analysis of new case law dominated Bradford and Barthel’s list of Top 10 Blogs of the Year, as practitioners saw more noteworthy decisions than usual in 2025. We at the Law Offices of…
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As California’s AB 5, AB 2257, as well as Prop. 22 and the millions of dollars poured into that campaign have all demonstrated, whether a hiring party can prove a worker is an independent contractor…
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With the advent of new case law from the 2nd District Court of Appeal effectively ending the “Patterson doctrine,” defense attorneys have to question whether the WCAB’s en banc decisions in Dubon I and II…
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Raising a successful marijuana intoxication defense against an alleged work-related injury may have been complicated by recent legislation, but defendants can still make it a successful defense if they remember the finer points of proving…
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Settlement season is here, and for many in the work comp game, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Every December, attorneys rush to and from their local Workers’ Compensation Appeals Boards to make…
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Workers’ compensation costs have hit their highest numbers in more than 20 years, according to a Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau report released earlier this month. The WCIRB’s latest Quarterly Experience Report states that California’s…
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