08/13/2008
CalOSHA is assessing fines of 77900 against a Central Valley farm labor contractor for violations of the state's heat-illness prevention law.
The DIR says in a press release Solis Labor Contractor located in Galt works the same fields where Maria Vasquez Jimenez a 19-year-old pregnant woman
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08/19/2014
side was not given the opportunity to address the issue with a supplemental brief or even additional evidence.
The case which so says followed i3jgig65cTyleri3jgig65c 56 Cal. App. 4th 389; 65 Cal. Rptr. 2d 431; 1997 Cal. App. LEXIS 562; 62 Cal. Comp. Cas 924 and is i3jgig65cKuykendall
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09/12/2014
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In Green-Steininger v. Image Support Systems 2014 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 377 the WCAB affirmed a WCJ's decision that CIGA was not entitled to any further reimbursement from a special employer when it established by a preponderance of substantial
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12/17/2020
attorney's fee citing as identical the case of Sierra Pac. Industries v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. 1977 67 Cal. App. 3d 413 42 Cal. Comp. Cases 128 136 Cal. Rptr. 649 and later claimed an additional penalty for failure of defendants to reimburse him for self-procured medical treatment.
On April 28
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12/17/2020
physicians a recommended rating was requested from the Disability Evaluation Bureau. Cal. Admin. Code tit. 8 § 10602. n1 A disability rating specialist submitted a formal response which was forwarded to counsel on November 9 1982.
On November 17 1982 Myrick sent a letter to the WCAB
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08/03/2009
CalOSHA's attempts to enforce heat illness regulations are "woefully inadequate" because it is "maxed out" and understaffed according to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the United Farm Workers Union
The organizations filed a lawsuit against the state Thursday in Los
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02/04/2013
Certainly the seminal case on contribution is Greenwald v. Carey Dist. Co. et al. 1981en banc 46 CCC 703 1981 Cal. Wrk. Comp. LEXIS 3275 actually two combined cases Greenwald and Dismuke both of which were extensively briefed by amicus curiae on request from the Board which then studied
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03/20/2013
; in the CCCs Hertz Corp. v. Workers Comp. Appls. Bd. Aguilar 2008 73 Cal. Comp. Cases 1653; 2008 Cal. Wrk. Comp. LEXIS 401; 169 Cal. App. 4th 232; 87 Cal. Rptr. 3d 36 NOT CITEABLE PERSUANT TO Cal. Rules of Ct. rule 8.528b3.
One might cite at the trial level the CCCs; but many WCJs and
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02/02/2021
A California appellate court denied a law firms motion to strike a malicious prosecution action filed against it because of its representation of an injured worker in a meritless wrongful termination suit.
Case Nor- Cal Seafood Inc. v. Stephen Danz & Associates P.C. No. A156617 01282021
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10/01/2009
WCJ. Defendant contends in substance that the WCJ erred in not following Weiner v. Ralphs Company 2009 74 Cal. Comp. Cases 736 Appeals Board en bane and that due to the repeal of Labor Code section 139.5 on January 1 2009 defendant is not liable for vocational rehabilitation I
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