by Kia Myers – As a former police officer, I am quite familiar with this term. However, many people are not, due to the specific application to a limited number of individuals in the labor force as…
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What is “4850 time”?
(June 18, 2013)
(June 18, 2013)
by Kia Myers – As a former police officer, I am quite familiar with this term. However, many people are not, due to the specific application to a limited number of individuals in the labor force as…
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by Alec T. Bradford (June 12, 2013)
This article will provide a brief summary of the environment for lien claims post SB 863. SB 863 has changed the landscape regarding the litigation of liens. Even before its scheduled enactment on January 1st…
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by Michael P. Burns (May 8, 2013)
Temporary disability provides injured workers with a replacement for lost wages they would suffer as they recover from an industrial injury. But what happens when an employer terminates an injured worker who is receiving temporary…
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(April 5, 2013)
by Timothy W. Rose – In late February 2013, the Audit Unit of the DWC provided a newsline release which dealt with good faith negotiations and liens. The release stated: The Audit Unit of the Division…
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(February 6, 2013)
by Timothy W. Rose – In an attempt to simplify the ever-confusing Workers’ Compensation world in the great State of California, our legislative branch drafted SB 863 in 2012. With the stroke of his pen, Governor…
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by Michael P. Burns (January 28, 2013)
Many adjusters and defense counsel have run into the following situation at least once: An applicant seems to disappear—he stops treating, misses evaluations, and fails to appear at hearings. Applicant’s counsel is often at a…
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by Donald R. Barthel (January 18, 2013)
“You broke it, you bought it”, is a fairly accurate rule of thumb applicable to California’s workers’ compensation system. When an industrial accident results in damage to a limb (or neck, or back, or heart,…
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(January 18, 2013)
by Dave Jones-Landry – After working for a number of years at a firm practicing almost exclusively in the area of occupational safety and health and defending employers against regulatory actions brought by Cal/OSHA, MSHA (the…
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by Donald R. Barthel (January 18, 2013)
Bradford & Barthel, LLP is pleased to announce their partnership with Spherical Models, LLC. Headed up by Futurist and Chief Technology Officer – Eric Hunter, this business is a global futurist advisory built to focus…
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(September 12, 2012)
by Dave Jones-Landry – I recently came up against a novel issue of handling travel expenses for transporting a southern California applicant to be deposed in San Francisco. For whatever reason, applicant, who lives and works in Southern…
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