Industry Insights
| Sams: My Boss, David DePaolo | 07/22/2016 | ||
| By: Jim Sams | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| More than 11 years ago, I answered a job ad for journalists and faced the most intriguing opportunity of my career: Working for a former lawyer who had launched a website and said he wanted to base his business model on doing good journalism. I took that plunge, mostly because I'd bee...Read More | |||
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Sullivan: July 2016 Case Law Update | 07/08/2016 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| Injury In Simard v. Lowe's Home Centers, 2016 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 214, the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board upheld that the WCJ's decision that an employee's psychiatric ...Read More | |||
| Stoddard: Oh, I Made a Mistake! Petitions to Set Aside | 07/01/2016 | ||
| By: Randall P. Stoddard | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| I recently attended the Workers’ Compensation Section 2016 Spring Conference at the State Bar of California. One speaker, the Honorable Judge Cliff Lee, presented “Oops: Mistakes, Errors and Petitions to Set Aside.” His insights are well worth sharing. ...Read More | |||
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Sullivan: June 2016 Case Law Update | 06/02/2016 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| In Hartzheim Dodge Inc. v. WCAB (Navarro) (2016) 81 CCC 362 (writ denied), the WCAB held that an employer was not entitled to credit against its workers’ compensation liability for a discrepancy between an applicant’s civil settlement and the amount reserved as payment for damage...Read More | |||
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Sullivan: May 2016 Case Law Update | 05/09/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Jurisdiction and subrogation In Collazo v. Global Manufacturing (2016 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 86), the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board held that a defendant was not entitled to a credit from an applicant's civil settlement when it was not clear from th...Read More | |||
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Sullivan: April 2016 Case Law Update | 04/20/2016 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Business of insurance In CIGA v. WCAB, 2016 Cal. App. LEXIS 213, the 2nd District Court of Appeal held that CIGA was not bound by a C&R agreement between two insurers apportioning liability for remaining liens. ...Read More | |||
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Sprang: Use of Subpoenas In Workers' Compensation | 04/11/2016 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Sent out repeatedly by all of the participants in the process, the subpoena for records is easily the most frequently used official document in workers’ compensation practice, yet it remains poorly understood and frequently misused. Understanding its essentials will prevent you fr...Read More | |||
| Sullivan: March 2016 Case Law Update | 03/02/2016 | ||
| By: Michael W. Sullivan | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| JURISDICTION AND SUBROGATION In Moore v. William Jessup University (2015) 81 CCC 31, the 3rd District Court of Appeal held that a delivery driver's negligence claim against a third party for inaccurately stating the weight of a box was barred under the assumption of risk doctrine....Read More | |||
| Supreme Court Issues Major Comp Subrogation Apportionment Decision | 02/01/2016 | ||
| State: GA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Just when you thought workers’ compensation subrogation in this country’s most difficult state could not get any more difficult, it does. In Zaldivar v. Prickett, 774 S.E.2d 688 (Ga. 2015), Prickett sued Zaldivar for injuries resulting from a 2009 work-related auto accident. The defen...Read More | |||
| Supreme Court Pulls Our State Back from Legal Chaos and Confusion, Sort of | 11/10/2015 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| It is hard to imagine Illinois subtly but certainly facing legal/legislative turmoil, confusion and disarray at the hands of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association but we assure you it was present. We send kudos to the august members of our highest state court for pulling our state back to a semb...Read More | |||
