$11.25M Settlement for Construction Accident Could Be Record

A former construction employee has been awarded what could be a record-setting workers’ compensation settlement more than two years after he fell four stories at a California work site. A Division of Workers’ Compensation administrative law judge on July 24 approved an $11.25 million settlement for Omar Ramirez, guardian of Salvador Ramirez Morales, 35, who suffered a traumatic brain injury and related complications following an accident in April 2018. The total settlement amount might be an unofficial record for California’s workers’ compensation system, which ha...