Industry Insights
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Kamin: Our Top 10 Blogs of 2025 | 12/26/2025 | |
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| By: John P. Kamin | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Summaries and analyses of new case law dominated Bradford and Barthel’s list of top 10 blogs of the year, as practitioners saw more noteworthy decisions than usual in 2025. ...Read More | |||
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Barthel: Are You an Employer, or Do You Use Independent Contractors? Can You Prove It? | 12/24/2025 | |
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| By: Don R. Barthel | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| As California’s Assembly Bill 5, AB 2257, Proposition 22 and the millions of dollars poured into that campaign have all demonstrated, whether a hiring party can prove that a worker is an independent contractor makes all the difference in the world. ...Read More | |||
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Barthel: Is Pot a Defense? Are You High? | 12/22/2025 | |
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| By: Donald R. Barthel | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Raising a successful marijuana intoxication defense against an alleged work-related injury may have been complicated by recent legislation, but defendants can still make it a successful defense if they remember the finer points of proving proximate cause. ...Read More | |||
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Barthel: Is Dubon II on the Way Out? | 12/17/2025 | |
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| By: Donald R. Barthel | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 2 | |||
| With the advent of new case law from the 2nd District Court of Appeal effectively ending the Patterson doctrine, defense attorneys have to question whether the WCAB's en banc decisions in Dubon I and II could eventually be challenged as well. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: San Fran City Official Stole $627k From Workers' Comp Division | 12/10/2025 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| In the latest example of how indefensibly corrupt California’s workers’ compensation system has become, a former San Francisco city official pleaded guilty to embezzling $627,118 from municipal coffers by paying a fake company to “audit” workers’ ...Read More | |||
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Kamin: Ring the Bells for Settlement Season | 12/08/2025 | |
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| By: John P. Kamin | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Settlement season is here, and for many in the work comp game, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Does Comp Care About Workers? | 12/05/2025 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| I have my doubts. Joe Paduda De...Read More | |||
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Sandoval: Throwing Subrogation Under the Bus | 12/03/2025 | |
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| By: Katherine A. Sandoval | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| On Oct. 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 487 into law, and it takes effect Jan. 1. ...Read More | |||
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Johnson: Some Thoughts on Apportionment - And SIBTF | 11/20/2025 | |
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| By: Arthur L. Johnson | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In 1952 (over 73 years ago) the California Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund in the Patterson case (17 CCC 142). But not only did the court uphold SIBTF constitutionally, they therein set forth the basis of how SIBTF benefits would be paid.&...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: State's First Responders May File Comp Claims for Trauma | 11/14/2025 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| As of Oct. 30, 2025, Pennsylvania first responders may file a workers’ compensation claim for post-traumatic stress injuries (PTSIs) that result from certain qualifying events. ...Read More | |||
