Chief San Bernardino WCAB Judge Dies

Charles A. Regnell, the presiding judge of the California Workers' Compensation Appeals Board district office in San Bernardino, died on Saturday after a brief illness. He was 70. Attorneys who tried cases before Regnell remembered him as a kind man with a love of puns and an office filled with model roadsters. "He was my pun master," said applicants' attorney Nancy Wallace of San Bernardino. "I always had to come up with a pun for him. He always had a pun for me. He was always up for a joke." Attorney Scott M. Tilley offered a similar assessment: "One of the funniest, driest wits I'v...