WCAB Rebukes Santa Ana Judge for Uncourteous Remarks

The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board last month chastised a judge at the Santa Ana District Office for the way in which he denied a continuance for a lien conference, even though the panel said he was right to do so. "A proper judicial temperament includes making reasonable accommodations for counsel, unless the case presents some sort of exigent circumstance or unless the party seeking the continuance has engaged in a pattern of dilatory conduct," the WCAB panel said in a July 2 decision by Commissioner Deidra Lowe. The next time a party asks for a continuance, Lowe wrote, Workers Comp...