Supreme Court Rules 'some Contribution' to Causation in Death Case Sufficient for Liability

The California Supreme Court has reversed a Court of Appeal decision, which had in turn reversed a Worker's Compensation Appeals Board award of dependency benefits in South Coast Framing v WCAB (Clark). The Supreme Court decision reinstates the WCAB award of dependency benefits and explicitly rejects the Court of Appeals' rationale for reversing the award finding that the lower court impermissibly ignored findings of fact made by the workers' compensation judge and WCAB and further erred in imposing a higher threshold for causation than was required in a workers’ compensation...