A California appellate court, in affirming an attorney fee award, said neither the Department of Industrial Relations nor the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board was required to notify a hearing representative or his client that a hearing would be held telephonically during the pandemic and that withdrawing their lien didn’t excuse their failure to appear.
A workers’ compensation administrative law judge in 2020 issued an order of $3,280 in fees to an injured worker’s attorney for work done ahead of four proceedings in 2018 and another in 2020 for which hearing represe...
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