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State Fund Seminar to Give Cal /OSHA Perspective

11/06/2007
State Compensation Insurance Fund will sponsor a free comprehensive seminar Safety Compliance and Claims in San Diego on Nov. 7. The seminar is designed to give employers insight into safety compliance by presenting them with a CalOSHA perspective and a claims perspective. Featured

Category: News

September Case Law Update

09/07/2012
-Air Cargo LLC 2012 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 289 the WCAB held that a bankruptcy discharge injunction is not a bar to completing a WCAB proceeding and no bankruptcy court order is necessary when the purpose of the WCAB proceeding is to collect from a collateral source and the injured worker makes

Category: Industry Insights

May 2015 Case Law Update

05/05/2015
In Byars v. New York Jets 2015 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 125 the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board held that California did not have jurisdiction over a professional football player's cumulative trauma claim when he played nine games in California out of approximately 250 games over

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Snodgrass v. WCAB

12/17/2020
. 1978 22 Cal. 3d 658 666-667 43 Cal. Comp. Cases 1205 150 Cal. Rptr. 250 586 P.2d 572. An employee may proceed under this section to obtain increased compensation or reinstatement and reimbursement of lost wages by filing an appropriate petition. Lab. Code § 132a Western Electric Co. v

Category: Cases

Chevron to Pay $1M in Cal /OSHA Settlement Over Refinery Fire

07/26/2017
CalOSHA and Chevron have reached a settlement over citations issued after the Richmond refinery fire in August 2012. The agreement brings Chevron into compliance with new California regulations geared toward reducing risk at refineries CalOSHA said in a news release on Tuesday. The refinery

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Re: VALDEZ - Reversed and Remanded (California) (California)

06/05/2012
in effect saying "this is what the law always has been." Change of law is one reason to re-open a case see isbecmm5gGonzalez v. WCABisbecmm5g 2010 75 Cal. Comp. Cases 1069; headnote says "Court of Appeal annulling WCAB's decision and remanding case held that

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December 2014 Case Law Update

12/04/2014
JURISDICTION AND SUBROGATION In Booth v. Chicago Bulls 2014 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 487 the WCAB reversed a WCJ and held that it did not have jurisdiction over a professional basketball player's claim for injury when he participated in practices only three times in

Category: Industry Insights

Questions Surround Change in Medi- Cal Reimbursement Calculations

10/12/2011
By Greg Jones Western Bureau Chief A change in how prescription drug reimbursement rates are calculated for the Medi- Cal database could cause billing problems in the California workers' compensation system and might also require regulatory changes for consistency in how medications are reimbursed

Category: News

February Case Law Update

02/06/2014
JURISDICTION AND SUBROGATIONIn KS Industries LP v. WCAB Brock 2013 Cal. Wrk. Comp. LEXIS 192 writ denied the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board held that it had jurisdiction over an injury occurring in North Dakota even though the employer argued that the acceptance of the

Category: Industry Insights

Sullivan: March 2016 Case Law Update

03/02/2016
INJURY In City of Stockton v. WCAB Prouty 2016 Cal. Wrk. Comp. LEXIS 8 writ denied the WCAB held that an applicant's death by acute alcoholism was not barred by the intoxication defense per LC 3600a4 when the applicant's industrial injury caused a relapse of his

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