Judge Enjoins State from Collecting Lien-Activation Fees

LOS ANGELES − A federal trial court judge said Thursday that he won't allow the California Division of Workers' Compensation to collect lien-activation fees imposed by Senate Bill 863 while an equal-protection challenge to the imposition of the fee is litigated, but has not decided if that ban will apply statewide or only to the plaintiffs in the case.Judge George H. Wu of the U.S. District Court for Central California ordered the parties in Angelotti Chiropractic v. Baker, No. 8:13-CV-01139-GW-JEM, to confer as to the appropriate scope of the preliminary injunction and to submit...