by (April 23, 2024)
Defendants can use a successful good faith personnel action defense to fight compensability of body parts that emanated from the alleged psyche injury, thanks to a 2012 published decision from the 4th District Court of…
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by (April 17, 2024)
Insurance carriers could be saving millions of dollars by properly using exclusions to bar coverage for staffing agencies, thanks to a published decision from 2019. The 2nd District Court of Appeal’s decision in Travelers Property…
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by (April 12, 2024)
The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board threatened to sanction an applicant’s attorney and a hearing representative up to $20,000 apiece for filing petitions for reconsideration with the intent to “disrupt or delay” WCAB proceedings. The board…
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by (April 1, 2024)
The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board’s 60-day deadline to act on timely petitions for reconsideration is tolled when an administrative error thwarts the 60-day deadline, according to a new significant panel decision. The Appeals Board determined…
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by (March 21, 2024)
The California Supreme Court denied review of a published decision finding the Salvation Army was not the employer of a man who was ordered to enlist in a residential drug rehabilitation program as part of…
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by (March 14, 2024)
A new bill would redefine the Labor Code’s definition of “signature” to clear up any confusion about parties’ ability to use electronic signatures on settlement documents. After the pandemic sent many work comp practitioners to…
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by (March 4, 2024)
A traveling banker was in the course and scope of employment when she died after a night of drinking during a business trip, a California appellate court ruled in an unpublished decision. In the recent…
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by (February 20, 2024)
Getting the right specialty of qualified medical evaluator on cumulative trauma claims is an important tool to successfully defending against them, and there are several things that claims departments can do to help get the…
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by (February 20, 2024)
Identifying the motivation for suspicious cumulative trauma claims can help inform carriers in defending against them. California is known as the one state in the nation with a cumulative trauma doctrine. The doctrine arises from…
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by (February 9, 2024)
The fact that the now-repealed Covid-19 presumptions did not contain a savings clause means that there are no statutory presumptions for pending Covid-19 claims, even if they have older dates of injury. A look back…
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