VRMA Contest Overlooks the Obvious, Court Rules

The California 5th District Court of Appeal refused a farm employer's request to decrease a vocational rehabilitation maintenance allowance and rejected the employer's explanation as to why services to an injured worker were delayed. The court said that the employer caused the delay by insisting that the injured worker choose a new vocational rehabilitation provider. Paramount Farms argued that the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) erred by increasing vocational rehabilitation maintenance allowance (VRMA) payments to an injured worker after finding Paramount Farms at fault for ...