04/01/2022
WORKERS COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
ANDREW ROHRBACH Applicant
vs.
COLORADO ROCKIES;
ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE administered by SEDGWICK Defendants
Adjudication Number ADJ10391741
Anaheim District Office
OPINION AND DECISION AFTER RECONSIDERATION
We previously granted
Category: Panel
05/19/2021
New York North Carolina Texas and Virginia experienced substantial changes in overall prices paid following a major fee schedule change during the study period.
The other states involved in the study include Alabama Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Georgia Indiana Iowa
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05/07/2021
percent-of-charge-based fee regulations were 73 to 209 higher than the median of the study states with fixed-amount fee schedules in 2019. In states with no fee schedules they were 61 to 130 higher.
The study also found that growth in hospital outpatient payments per episode among non-fee schedule
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04/01/2021
WORKERS COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
KENNETH HOADLEY Applicant
vs.
AMERICAN AIRLINES;
NEW HAMPSHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Defendants
Adjudication Number ADJ8117286
Santa Ana District Office
OPINION AND DECISION
AFTER RECONSIDERATION
The Appeals Board granted reconsideration on
Category: Panel
02/11/2021
the summary of a white paper released last month.
The paper cited a 2015 National Center for Biotechnology Information study that found injured workers were 45 more likely to be treated for depression versus workers who were not injured. Another recent study from the Workers Compensation Research
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02/03/2021
New Jersey jumped up two places to take from New York the top spot on the latest interstate workers compensation premium rate ranking report published every other year by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services.
New York fell to second place in the biennial report; California
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12/17/2020
HOWELL v. HAMILTON MEATS & PROVISIONS INC.
REBECCA HOWELL Plaintiff and Appellant
v.
HAMILTON MEATS & PROVISIONS INC. Defendant and Respondent.
No. S179115.
Supreme Court of California.
Filed August 18 2011.
Law Office of Gary L. Simms Gary L. Sims; LaFave & Rice John J. Rice
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12/17/2020
Filed 061107
CERTIFIED FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION FIVE
MAXLYN CADLO
Plaintiff and Respondent
v.
METALCLAD INSULATION
CORPORATION
Defendant and Appellant.
A111353
San Francisco
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04/01/2020
contract in oregon but
now realizes he was mistaken and that he signed it in San Diego at his mothers
apartment on Fulton
Street San Diego California. 1d. p. 9. Applicant's memory regarding where
he lived in
1975 and 1976
was refreshed when he found his player contracts from that time. MoH
p. 7
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02/19/2020
in California’s employers paying the nation’s second-highest costs for workers’ compensation insurance according to a biennial survey by Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services the widely accepted authority.
"It also indirectly cheats
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