A greater share of California injured workers are going to the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board without a lawyer, a trend that applicants' attorneys say is a natural consequence of reform legislation that gutted their fees along with permanent disability ratings.
Figures from the California Division of Workers' Compensation show the percentage of new applications for adjudication filed by unrepresented workers in California is up since early 2005, when it ran between 4% and 5% for all types of claims.
Then the percentage of unrepresented claimants began to rise steadily to nearly 8% ...
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