Industry Insights
| CAAA: The Left Hand Doesn't Know What the Right Hand Is Doing | 02/22/2024 | ||
| By: California Applicants' Attorneys Association | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Think of the California workers’ compensation system. It’s run by the state. It’s supposed to provide no-fault medical treatment and modest financial benefits when a Californian gets injured at work. Now, think about Cal/OSHA. It’s another department...Read More | |||
| CAAA: Not an Isolated Issue | 01/17/2024 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| For years, we have experienced the frustrations that come with trying to make the workers’ compensation system run better for injured people. The challenge has always been the arcane nature of the system, the isolated examples of unfair treatment and the low pulse the issue sen...Read More | |||
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Clark: Tips for Settling at the Deposition | 12/06/2023 | |
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| By: Scott C. Clark | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| "Put that coffee down. Coffee's for closers only." ...Read More | |||
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Carrico: Understanding IBR Can Resolve Valuation Disputes | 11/09/2023 | |
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| By: Keane A. Carrico | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Understanding how to use independent bill review is a key tool in lien litigation that can help resolve balance valuation disputes that used to extend the life of cases for years. ...Read More | |||
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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 | |||
