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.
Tomorrow CAAA begins its summer confab in Las Vegas. As usual, there will be interesting theories and speculation on the direction of California workers’ comp law. But the site of the conference got me wondering. What’s new in Nevada’s workers’ comp law? The answer seems to be “telemedicine”. Telemedicine software provider CloudVisit claims in a […]
One of the most significant issues on the workers’ comp horizon is how the courts will deal with the so-called “new economy”. What are the requirements for workers’ comp coverage in the “shared economy”? Uber, the most prominent of the new “shared economy” employers, is hitting some legal speed-bumps. Uber, of course, is just one […]
We are Gawandeans. That’s the message from the DWC to the workers’ comp community. The Gawandean message was delivered in a presentation to CHSWC on June 4 by Dr. Rupali Das, DWC Executive Medical Director. The presentation by Das was titled “Providing Better Care to Workers: Independent Medical Review and MTUS” (A link to materials […]
The $120 million “Return to Work” fund (to compensate workers whose permanent disability payments were disproportionately low in relation to their wage losses) was enacted in 2012 but not designed and instituted by the DWC until 2015. Questions have swirled around how the fund would be designed, administered, and funded. Among those was the question […]
The recent California Supreme Court case, South Coast Framing Inc. V. WCAB (Jovelyn Clark) clarifies the standard of causation in a workers’ comp death case. In day to day workers’ comp practice the decision will probably be helpful to workers’ comp claimants who are litigating to establish that an injury or death is work related. […]
What about doctors giving a warranty for their work? Workcompcentral’s Ben Miller produced an interesting piece about a Florida spine surgeon, Dr. Ari Deukmedjian, who apparently does just that. Apparently the warranty is available if an insurer pays the Deuk Spine Institute’s billed rate rather than the rate dictated by Florida’s workers’ comp fee schedule. Well […]
It’s never been clear why Governor Brown has been so slow to exercise appointments to the WCAB. But at any rate Brown has now exercised that power, appointing Jose Razo to the WCAB. Razo, a journeyman workers’ comp practitioner, comes most recently from Laughlin, Falbo, Levy and Moresi, a statewide defense firm with an excellent reputation. […]
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