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.

February 15, 2019

MAJOR CHANGES FOR SIBTF?

In the waning days of the Brown Administration significant changes were proposed for the SIBTF, commonly referred to as the Subsequent Injuries Fund. This was done in an  end of 2018 under-the-radar request to the California Department of Finance by David Lanier, Brown’s Secretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and Chief Deputy Director […]


February 5, 2019

ITS ABOUT TIME

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has now announced free online access to medical evidence-based treatment guidelines for medical providers (see link to the press release below). It’s about time. Over a decade ago, California began adopting medical treatment protocols for work injury treatment, largely based on the ACOEM guidelines from the American College of […]