by (December 7, 2021)
California may be seeing a rise in Valley Fever cases, but employers could use a preventative care idea from the Covid-19 pandemic to help prevent occupational exposures to the Valley Fever fungi. Wired Magazine had…
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by (December 1, 2021)
Workers’ compensation professionals are experts at strategizing. We often say that the goal in case handling is to choose the approach that settles the issue the fastest. Practically speaking, however, this is not as simple…
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by (November 29, 2021)
The Division of Workers’ Compensation is mulling a $45 fee increase for subpoena services that produce records of 500 pages or less, in a rules proposal that also contains additional meet and confer provisions. The…
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by (November 15, 2021)
One of Bradford & Barthel’s top workers’ compensation defense attorneys has written a new book taking a deep dive into the murders of more than a dozen young women in South Florida during the 1970s….
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(November 3, 2021)
by David Bishop – When reviewing PQME reports, it’s common for practitioners to gloss over the “research” section despite the fact that the respective doctor is relying on said research to come to the conclusion with…
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by (November 3, 2021)
I don’t know what your educational experience was like, but during my childhood I vividly recall many of my student peers waiting until the last minute to turn in assignments. Fortunately, I was never that…
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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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