Young: Training the Docs

Recently I had the pleasure of speaking to a large QME training course, sponsored by the California Orthopedic Association. Joined by WCJ Noah Tempkin and defense attorney William Tappin, the focus of my segment of the training panel, held at Orange County’s Ritz-Carlton Resort at Laguna Niguel, was on “Almaraz/Guzman: What Works and What Doesn’t Work?” Transport yourself back to 2009. Here’s a quick history of Almaraz/Guzman. In a 2009 en banc decision the WCAB issued an expansive opinion in the Almaraz and the Guzman cases allowing rebuttal of a ...