by (April 1, 2008)
Congratulations are in order for B&B’s Managing Partner, Mark S. Fletcher, and Tahmeena I. Ahmed, the Partner and Managing Attorney for our Tarzana office. Mark recently celebrated his tenth year at B&B. In that time,…
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by (January 1, 2008)
Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law the workers’ compensation reform package known as SB 899 on April 19, 2004. Unfortunately, SB 899 has generated a pack of lies. What’s the biggest whopper you’ve heard about SB…
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by (January 1, 2008)
The Problem Oh no! California has, yet again, another split decision! Remember the confusion last year? After years of following the apportionment rules set down 30-plus years ago in Fuentes v. Workers’ Comp. Appeals Bd….
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by (October 1, 2007)
Sexual harassment is a form of illegal discrimination. It may include the unwelcome behavior of a supervisor, co-worker, or third party. It covers male-to-female, female-to-male, male-to-male, and female-to-female actions. Sexual harassment may occur verbally, physically,…
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by (October 1, 2007)
Almost immediately after the passage of SB 899 (4/19/04), the “TD cap” language found in Labor Code §4656(c) became the subject of vigorous dispute and rancor. Labor Code §4656(c), provides: Aggregate disability payments for a…
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(July 1, 2007)
by Scott Rountree – Don’t Have Enough Work? Rule 10608 requires plenty of that. In a nutshell, this statute requires that lien claimants who request it be copied on all medical reports (not simply reports obtained…
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by (July 1, 2007)
Exciting news! Kent Ball in Bradford & Barthel’s Walnut Creek office just had a favorable ruling from the California Supreme Court in Larry Gossett vs. WCAB. The decision has been written up in several industry…
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by (April 1, 2007)
Baglione Revisited B&B attorneys have been arguing over these many months that the WCAB commissioners had it wrong in Torres (a panel decision) as well as Pendergrass and Baglione (two 1/24/07 en banc decisions). It…
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by (April 1, 2007)
The results are in. We win! In the B&B Blog, November/December 2006, Volume 2, Number 6 issue in an article entitled “The Audit Unit Is Made Up of People Too.”, I discussed various strategies we…
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by (April 1, 2007)
The California Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion filed on 5/3/07, issued a stunning defeat to the California Applicants’ Attorneys Association. The decision (which involved five cases: Brodie/Welcher/Strong/Lopez/Williams) concluded that in cases in which the…
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