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.
Movie fans will remember R2D2 as a very cute robot. A Mountain View, California start up, Knightscope, has developed an even cuter droid which promises big things. To predict and prevent crime. I attended an event in Silicon Valley that featured a presentation by Knightscope CEO William Santana Li. Formerly an executive with Ford Motor, Li […]
Several weeks ago Pulitzer Prize winning poet Philip Levine died. Levine was widely hailed as one of America’s leading poets of the past 50 years. His poetry often focused on themes of working people. Over the years I’d read an occasional Levine poem, but never paid that much attention to his work. Levine had a […]
Would you like to be a California workers’ comp judge? That was a question posed to me at a recent party by an acquaintance who has no experience with the workers’ comp field. The answer is no. But it got me thinking. It was a subject I recently discussed with one of the judges and […]
The writ in Dubon II has been denied. The constitutionality of the IMR system in in play in the pending Stevens case. Meanwhile, another interesting case involving UR and IMR was recently decided by the WCAB. Thanks to the LexisNexis Legal Newsroom on Workers’ Compensation and attorney Robert Rassp for bringing the case of Loretta […]
The DWC has posted on its website the RAND Corporations’s study on home health care in workers’ compensation. The study, titled “Home Health Care for California’s Injured Workers: Options for Implementing a Fee Schedule” can be found here: www.dir.ca.gov/dwc/Reports/HomeHealthCareCAIW.pdf SB 863 added Labor Code 5307.1(a)(1) which requires the DWC adopt a home health services fee […]
The constitutional challenge to California’s IMR system in Frances Stevens v. Outspoken Enterprises continues to be the number one story in California workers’ comp. At this past weekend’s CAAA convention in San Diego much of the focus was on the problem of injured workers getting medical treatment, the high volume of UR denials, and the […]
On Sunday the California Applicants’ Attorneys Association wrapped up its 2015 winter convention in San Diego. CAAA’s conventions often serve as a weathervane of the California workers’ comp scene, and as incubators for new theories and trends. The syllabus to the meetings was 1,585 pages long. What follows are some quick takeaways I got from some of […]
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