Supreme Court Denies SCIF's Petition for Review in Almaraz

By John P. Kamin, Legal EditorGet CEs for reading this column, click here!The California Supreme Court decided not to review the controversial Almaraz decision on Wednesday, shifting practitioners' focus from overturning the ruling to answering the question of what constitutes an adequate rebuttal. The state Supreme Court denied review to SCIF v. WCAB (Almaraz) on Wednesday morning, ending payers' hopes that the high court would nullify the 6th District Court of Appeal's ruling in Milpitas Unified School District v. WCAB (Guzman). Now that the 5th District Court of Appeal and the s...