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  • Case name:
    McCarty v. WCAB
    Date:
    10/30/1974
    Note:
    Intoxication not a defense where employer permits consumption of alcohol.
    Citation:
    12 Cal.3d 677, 33 CCC 712
    WCC citation:
    WCC 3411974 CA
  • Case name:
    McClune v. WCAB
    Date:
    04/02/1998
    Note:
    WCJ and WCAB can order taking new evidence when record lacks substantial evidence to find industrial causation, such duty imposed by due process.
    Citation:
    62 Cal.App.4th 1117, 63 CCC 261
    WCC citation:
    WCC 26811998 CA
  • Case name:
    McClure v. Dept of Corrections and Rehabilitation
    Date:
    05/18/2011
    Note:
    An employee of a temporary staffing firm assigned to work at the California Department of Corrections was a special employee of the department under the Fair Employment and Housing Act, the 3rd District Court of Appeals ruled in affirming a jury award in a sexual-harassment lawsuit.
    Citation:
    C062601, C063431
    WCC citation:
    WCC 37662011 CA
  • Case name:
    McCormick v. San Pedro Bait Co.
    Date:
    12/15/2009
    Note:
    The Privette doctrine barred an injured worker's negligence suit against the owner of a bait barge.
    Citation:
    B215111
    WCC citation:
    WCC 35862009 CA
  • Case name:
    McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Co. v. WCAB
    Date:
    06/09/1993
    Note:
    Settling employer not liable for contribution to another employer absent evidence that settlement was in bad faith.
    Citation:
    58 CCC 305
    WCC citation:
    WCC 26031993 CA
  • Case name:
    McDuffie v. LA Co. Metropolitan Transit Authority
    Date:
    02/25/2002
    Note:
    Proper procedure for supplementing medical record at trial.
    Citation:
    67 CCC 138
    WCC citation:
    WCC 28402002 CA
  • Case name:
    McGee Street Productions vs. WCAB
    Date:
    05/12/2003
    Note:
    Statute of limitations for serious & willful claims strictly construed.
    Citation:
    108 Cal.App.4th 707
    WCC citation:
    WCC 29342003 CA
  • Case name:
    McKinnon v. Otis Elevator Company
    Date:
    04/18/2007
    Note:
    When an employer fails to adequately notify its employee of its subrogation lawsuit and proposed settlement involving the alleged third-party tortfeasor and fails to obtain the employee's consent to the settlement of that suit, and when the settling alleged third-party tortfeasor, prior to settlement, was or reasonably should have been aware of the possibility of the employee's claim for damages against the tortfeasor, the alleged tortfeasor cannot use the mere settlement and dismissal of the employer's subrogation action to bar the employee from maintaining her own action for damages against the alleged tortfeasor.
    Citation:
    149 Cal. App. 4th 1125
    WCC citation:
    WCC 32162007 CA
  • Case name:
    McNally v. Holzman
    Date:
    04/18/2011
    Note:
    An applicant may not do an end run around the one-year statute of limitations by morphing her malpractice suit against her former attorneys into a defamation suit.
    Citation:
    B225645
    WCC citation:
    WCC 37472011 CA
  • Case name:
    Meadows v. Farrell
    Date:
    11/22/2010
    Note:
    A nurse case manager's motion to strike an applicant's lawsuit failed because the nurse failed to show that her allegedly injurious comments were protected speech.
    Citation:
    H035309
    WCC citation:
    WCC 36822010 CA
  • Case name:
    Medrano v. WCAB
    Date:
    09/25/2008
    Note:
    Vocational rehabilitation maintenance allowance (VRMA) is not a wage replacement benefit, and thus it is not subject to wage-loss credit.
    Citation:
    B202828
    WCC citation:
    WCC 34292008 CA
  • Case name:
    Meeks Building Center v. WCAB (Najjar)
    Date:
    06/26/2012
    Note:
    A single payment of benefits to an injured worker for attending a defense-requested medical evaluation is a reimbursement of a medical-legal expense, not a payment of temporary disability benefits.
    Citation:
    C065944
    WCC citation:
    WCC 39102012 CA
  • Case name:
    Mehta v. Activor Corp.
    Date:
    03/20/2018
    Note:
    Citation:
    B276151
    WCC citation:
    Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. BC 488531
  • Case name:
    Mejia-Gutierrez v. Comcast of California III
    Date:
    01/28/2013
    Note:
    A contractor was not liable as a matter of law, for injuries sustained by an employee of one of its subcontractors in a fall from a ladder.
    Citation:
    A132933
    WCC citation:
    WCC 39782013 CA
  • Case name:
    Melman v. PDF Solutions, Inc.
    Date:
    03/22/2013
    Note:
    A former corporate officer with multiple sclerosis could not prove that his company terminated him on the basis of his disability as a matter of law.
    Citation:
    H037703
    WCC citation:
    WCC 39962013 CA
  • Case name:
    Mendez v. LAUSD
    Date:
    04/09/2013
    Note:
    A Los Angeles Unified School District clerk who decided to file a civil action against her employer and an elementary school teacher who she says attacked her instead of filing a workers' compensation claim is not entitled to a tort claim.
    Citation:
    B240919
    WCC citation:
    WCC 40002013 CA
  • Case name:
    Mendiola v. Crestwood Behavioral Health
    Date:
    12/31/1969
    Note:
    A California appellate court ruled that a health care worker was limited to a remedy through workers’ compensation for her injuries from an assault by a mentally ill patient.
    Citation:
    C082345
    WCC citation:
    Super. Ct. No. 34-2013- 00147943-CU-WT-GDS
  • Case name:
    Mendoza v. Brodeur
    Date:
    08/18/2006
    Note:
    It was was premature to require the employee to come forward with evidence to show a triable issue of fact when the employer had not shifted the evidentiary burden.
    Citation:
    142 Cal. App. 4th 72
    WCC citation:
    WCC 31742006 CA
  • Case name:
    Mendoza v. Huntington Hospital
    Date:
    06/03/2010
    Note:
    [En Banc] AD Rule 30(d)(3) is invalid because it conflicts with sections 4060(c) and 4062.2 and exceeds the scope of section 5402(b).
    Citation:
    ADJ6820138
    WCC citation:
    WCC 36342010 CA
  • Case name:
    Mendoza v. United Air Lines
    Date:
    08/05/2009
    Note:
    [Unpublished] Because Mendoza failed to give any notice of intent to contest the tentative ruling, she waived her right to challenge that ruling.
    Citation:
    A122632
    WCC citation:
    WCC 35502009 CA

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