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Chelvam: State Rule of Professional Conduct 8.3 a Game Changer | 11/03/2023 | |
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| By: Michael Chelvam | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Yes, you read the title correctly: I am indeed referring to a rule of professional conduct as a game changer. Until very recently, I would never have considered using that term to describe a rule of professional conduct. ...Read More | |||
| CAAA: An Unhappy Labor Day | 09/06/2023 | ||
| By: California Applicants' Attorneys Association | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| The State Auditor just released a new report on the failures of the Employment Development Department’s mishandling of the state’s unemployment insurance program, which resulted in a $20 bil...Read More | |||
| CAAA: The Final Finals | 08/29/2023 | ||
| By: California Applicants' Attorneys Association | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| The Legislature will finish its work for the year on Sept. 15. CAAA is working hard on gender bias with a bill that has the U.C. Berkeley Labor Center gather and interpret accurate and objective data on how injured women are penalized for being women. CAAA is pushing legislation e...Read More | |||
| CAAA: State's Labor Movement Has Its Hands Full | 08/11/2023 | ||
| By: CAAA Communications Team | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Hollywood on strike as artificial Intelligence threatens actual intelligence. Teamsters facing autonomous driverless trucks. Hotel owners cutting daily room cleaning to cut hotel housekeepers’ paychecks. Farmworkers organizing under a new first-in-the-nation law.&nbs...Read More | |||
| Combining Succesive Industrial Injuries | 07/06/2002 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Under the cases of Wilkinson v. WCAB, 42 CCC 406 and Bauer v. County of Los Angeles, 34 CCC 594, when two industrial injuries to the same part of body become permanent and stationary on the same date, no L.C. ...Read More | |||
| Combining Succesive Industrial Injuries | 07/06/2002 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The Wilkinson rationale has been extended to combine any two or more injuries where there is a common part of body becoming permanent and stationary on the same date. The Wilkinson case involved a series of injuries to a single part of body. In Norton v. WCAB, 45 CCC 1098, one injury to the bac...Read More | |||
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Copeland: One Girl's Opinion About the DWC's Designated Doctor 'Fix' | 05/15/2023 | |
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| By: Erika Copeland | |||
| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| If you live long enough, things definitely seem to come full circle. ...Read More | |||
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Corder: Impact of a Slower Economy on Loss Control Programs | 03/09/2023 | |
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| By: Jeff Corder | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| An economic recession is a widespread and prolonged downturn in economic activity. Economists use many factors to define when a country’s economy is in a recession, including two consecutive quarters of a negative GDP, industrial production and nonfarm payrolls. ...Read More | |||
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Curtius: Liens: Don't Forget About the Second Bill Review | 02/23/2023 | |
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| By: Kelly A. Curtius | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In decades past, courts had more discretion over lien disputes and often allowed lien claimants substantial leeway when it came to procedural and evidentiary issues. In fact, it was common for defense attorneys to have to remind the parties that it is the lien claimants’ (and not the defend...Read More | |||
| CAAA: Stupid Bragging | 01/12/2023 | ||
| By: California Applicants' Attorneys Association | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A few years ago, the California Workers’ Compensation Institute bragged to NPR about how well California’s work comp system was working. The evidence? Probably not something to brag about. “Only” 8% of medical treatment denials for injured worker...Read More | |||
