5th DCA Reinforces Industrial Disability Leave Ruling in Brooks

California's 5th District Court of Appeal denied a correctional officer's attempt to challenge recent rulings stating that industrial disability leave and temporary total disability run concurrently. The appellate court denied claimant Alvin Wiley's petition for a writ of review with an unpublished decision in Wiley v. WCAB, No. F053859, 5/21/08. The court based its decision to deny the petition upon its recently published decision of Brooks v. WCAB. The facts in Wiley's case are similar to the facts in the Brooks decision, issued on April 18.Wiley works as a correctional offi...