In the intricate realm of workers’ compensation law, where fairness and due process are paramount, a recent case before the California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SCOPE OF A COMPROMISE AND RELEASE  In Jaime Estrela v. Permanente Medical Group 2023 WL 6061161 (Cal.W.C.A.B.), the Workers’ Compensation Appeals

In Gerald Zelnik v. Office of Statewide Health Planning,[1] the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board confirmed that defendants have a right to assert a good faith

In Rose Jones v. Regents of the University of California (10/31/23) 2023 Daily Journal D.A.R. 281, the Court of Appeal for the Fourth district of

Can a vocational expert’s opinion on apportionment supersede and/or replace medical apportionment determined by a treating or evaluating physician for the purposes of total permanent

The recent panel decision, Marva Smith v. Solar Turbines, Inc., ADJ12010500, reads like a crime thriller novel with a dizzying, whirlwind of conspiracy theories postulated

“If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot

In Case v. Union Dodge, Inc., 2023 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. Lexis 94, a recent panel decision discussed how there can be more than one

All philosophers, who find Some favourite system to their mind, In every point to make it fit, Will force all nature to submit. – Headlong

A Haiku for the poetry of worker’s compensation, and the two sides of the COVID-19 presumptions:  2020’s ruse COVID-19 hangover Presumption guarded  As we approach