Industry Insights
| Comp Rates to Decline | 04/08/2015 | ||
| By: Julius Young | |||
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| California businesses and their advocates are undoubtedly pleased to hear that workers’ comp costs are likely to decline. That’s the takeaway from news that the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau Governing Committee announced intentions to do a mid-year rate f...Read More | |||
| CIGA Pulls Back | 03/27/2015 | ||
| By: Julius Young | |||
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| The California Insurance Guarantee Association has dropped its Petition for a Writ filed in the California Court of Appeal, 3rd District in the case CIGA v. WCAB (Smith). Pursuant to CIGA’s recent request, the 3rd District issued a March 18 order that “Pursuant to petitioner&r...Read More | |||
| Can California's Workers' Comp System Be Fixed? | 03/24/2015 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
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| Dr. David Deitz, MD, PhD, was last up at the California Workers' Compensation Institute's conference. His task was to bring it all together by asking an apparently simple and straightforward question: "What can California learn from Washington?" Or put another way, &ldqu...Read More | |||
| California Case Law Update | 03/13/2015 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| NEW! Sardell v. Bresler, B252589, (02/25/2015): A California appellate court ruled that a lien claimant could not seek an order vacating a sanction against him nearly half a year after it became final. NEW! Lopez v. Waks, B248734, (02/25/2015): A California appellate court ruled that an i...Read More | |||
| Comparing Florida to New York | 02/13/2015 | ||
| By: David Langham | |||
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| What does it cost to run a workers' compensation system? New York and Florida make for interesting comparisons. Last December, according to the United States Census Bureau, The Florida population surpassed New York, becomming the third most populous state. Florida now has 19.9 million...Read More | |||
| California Case Law Update | 01/27/2015 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
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| NEW! Gutierrez v. Girardi, B251857, (01/12/2015): A California appellate court upheld the denial of the certification of a class of plaintiffs in a malpractice suit against Girardi & Keese, based on the famous law firm's alleged mishandling of the proceeds of a toxic tort settlement. ...Read More | |||
| Cross-Examining Shrinks: Leckart's 5th Rule | 01/14/2015 | ||
| By: Dr. Bruce Leckart | |||
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| In the past four months, I have provided a discussion of Leckart’s first four rules for cross-examining psychologists and psychiatrists. Essentially, they are: (1) never ask the doctor about the patient, but confine your questions to the doctor’s report, (2) focus your questions on th...Read More | |||
| Continuing Hope for Reinstatement of the Lien Activation Fee | 12/22/2014 | ||
| By: Melissa LeBlanc | |||
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| It is not often that workers’ compensation issues become the subject of federal court proceedings. However, as we all know, the lien activation fee imposed by Senate Bill 863 has been challenged as unconstitutional in the Angelotti case. While the District Court judge imposed a temp...Read More | |||
| Cross-Examining Shrinks: Leckart's 4th Rule | 12/10/2014 | ||
| By: Dr. Bruce Leckart | |||
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| In the past three months I have outlined Leckart’s first three rules for cross-examining psychologists and psychiatrists. Specifically, they are: Leckart’s First Rule states the attorney should never ask the doctor about the patient but always confine their questioning ...Read More | |||
| California Case Law Update | 12/09/2014 | ||
| Source: WCC Staff | |||
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| NEW! Hamp v. Harrison, Patterson, O'Connor & Kinkead, D064453, (10/30/2014): The 4th District Court of Appeal ruled that an injured worker's malpractice claim against his former attorneys failed as a matter of law. NEW! Cordova v. BNSF Railway, E056223, (11/06/14): A...Read More | |||
