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.
A second bill to enact a presumption that COVID illness is industrial has been introduced in California’s legislature. The bill, SB 1159 (authored by Senator Jerry Hill and co-authored by Assemblyman Tom Daly), would create a rebuttable presumption that for certain “critical workers”, COVID illness or death be deemed industrial. This would apply to critical […]
The pressure on the California workers’ comp system to deal with the COVID-19 crisis is mounting. Should first responders, medical personnel and “essential workers” who are diagnosed with COVID receive a presumption that the virus was contracted at work? If there is no presumption, workers can still pursue a COVID claim, but they would have […]
The WCIRB Governing Committee met this morning, with the public meeting featuring a presentation by WCIRB Chief Actuary David Bellusci. Following the meeting the Governing Committee went into closed executive session. But there were two main takeaways from Bellusci’s presentation. First, the WCIRB Actuarial Committee has unanimously recommended that there be no mid-year rate filing. […]
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