Workers Comp Zone

A Partner at Boxer & Gerson LLP, Julius Young has practiced worker’s compensation law and social security disability law since 1979. He has represented thousands of individuals who have sustained life-changing injuries or illnesses while on the job. In every case, his goal is to secure the medical treatments his clients need.

July 27, 2017

FORMING THE FORMULARY

What will the California workers’ comp drug formulary look like? We didn’t get an answer by July 1, 2017, the date mandated by AB 1124, passed in 2015. But the DWC is making strides in putting the formulary in place. Stakeholders with an interest in this will probably want to pay close attention, as the […]


July 11, 2017

TOP 10 CALIFORNIA WORKERS' COMP FIRST HALF OF 2017

Months race by, so now it is time to take stock of California workers’ comp after the 2017 half-way mark. What stands out? Below, in no particular order, are my picks for the most significant topics in California workers’ comp during the first half of 2017. Most of these were discussed in my blog as the […]


July 7, 2017

YOUR WORKERS TRAVEL WHERE?

A recent California Court of Appeals decision deals with the issue of how and when an insurance carrier can rescind a workers’ compensation policy. Studies prepared for CHSWC have shown that California is plagued with a large amount of employer premium fraud (see link at the end of this post). Sometimes it may be the hiding […]