Supreme Court Denies Review of 3 Comp Cases

The California Supreme Court has denied writ review of three workers' compensation cases, including one in which the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board ruled that an applicant's attorney made a prohibited communication with an agreed medical evaluator by handing the evaluator and defense counsel a new vocational evaluation report at the evaluator's deposition.That case was Trapero v. WCAB (North American Pneumatics), No. S208246.It arose from Martin Trapero's admitted industrial injury on March 3, 2000. The parties agreed to use multiple medical evaluators to resolve the c...