Court Remands Case to Determine Date of Injury for CT Claim by '70s-Era Ballplayer

A California appeals court annulled a Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board decision ordering arbitration of a coverage dispute to obtain a factual determination of the date of injury for a former New York Yankee who retired in 1978. A workers’ compensation judge found that the cumulative trauma claim George Zeber filed in 2017 was not barred by the one-year statute of limitations, but the judge never made a finding on the date of injury to determine whether a related coverage dispute could be sent to mandatory arbitration. Zeber in May 2017 filed a claim, alleging he sustained cum...