by (October 19, 2021)
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began in mid-March of 2020, the landscape of employment was changed drastically and forever. The transition from office to remote work was a necessity for most office-based businesses that needed to…
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by (October 19, 2021)
A new bill barring nondisclosure agreements from settlements in cases featuring discrimination, harassment, or retaliation is going to force employers and defendants to reconfigure how they craft their settlement releases and addenda. In drafting settlement…
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by (October 13, 2021)
Now that the California’s statewide supplemental paid sick leave has expired as of September 30 2021, employers, brokers, and administrators are wondering when employees are owed supplemental paid sick leave after exposure to Covid-19. When…
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by (October 7, 2021)
Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have increased the weekly amount of EDD benefits paid by the state, which could have resulted in inflated EDD liens against workers’ compensation cases and complicated…
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by (October 1, 2021)
Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited apportionment to race, religion, color, national origin and other characteristics. The recently-re-elected governor vetoed Senate Bill 788 on Sept. 28, which was introduced by…
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by (September 16, 2021)
Since the 2013 decision in Athens Administrators v. WCAB (Kite) 78 CCC 213 (writ denied), doctors have found ways of increasing total permanent disability by adding disabilities rather than using the Combined Values Chart (CVC). Here at…
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by (September 15, 2021)
Temporary total disability seems like a relatively simple wage replacement concept at first glance, but can get complicated quickly when one adds terminations, resignations and strikes into the mix. As we know, the purpose of…
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by (September 14, 2021)
One of the best things a defendant can do in a workers’ compensation case is make a compelling argument for some or all of an applicant’s permanent disability to be apportioned to a preexisting injury….
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by (September 13, 2021)
California employers should not be liable for negligence lawsuits alleging derivative injuries, according to a brief field with the state’s 2nd District Court of Appeal in a case with enormous consequences for employers. The California…
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by (August 5, 2021)
New reporting from the WCIRB shows that total written premium for the first quarter of 2021 was down 13% from the year before, and that carriers are paying more than they’re collecting in premiums for…
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