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.
In closed a closed door session this afternoon, California Assembly Democrats decided to give the nod to Assemblywoman Karen Bass to succeed termed out Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. Bass was not in the Assembly in 2004 and did not vote on SB 899, the Schwarzenegger workers’ comp reform bill. Generally Bass has supported labor interests […]
Earlier today the California Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee voted in favor of SB 1115, the bill that would ban age, race and gender discrimination in awarding disability compensation to California workers. The bill will eventually have to make its way through the California Assembly on its way to the governor’s desk. Among those […]
The California State Senate Labor and Insurance subcommittee holds hearings Wednesday on the bill to prohibit discrimination in workers’ compensation. Here’s the bill, SB 1115 (sponsored by State Senator Carole Migden):http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/s … oduced.pdf The concept behind the bill is strikingly simple: there should be no discrimination in workers compensation based on gender, race, age, and […]
The Oscars. Looks like “No Country For Old Men” has smoked the intense period piece “Atonement” and the social justice thriller “Michael Clayton”. Oscars is a sacred night for many of us. Perhaps you grew up watching Doris Day flirt with Rock Hudson. Or trying to figure out what Michelangelo Antonioni was saying in all […]
This afternoon is crunch time for the Schwarzenegger-Nunez healthcare reform package, ABX1. Last week’s California Senate hearing on the bill was continued to this afternoon. A few weeks ago it appeared that ABX1 might make it after all. The product of year-long negotiations and a “special session” of the legislature, ABX1 is supported by many […]
(Note: the following is a workerscompzone series done by Julius Young while currently traveling in Asia) “Country roads, take me home To the place, I belong West Virginia, mountain momma Take me home, country roads” “Are you goin to San Francisco? Be sure to wear a flower in your hair….” Hearing those songs yesterday, I […]
A couple of developments in the last few days worth noting(from afar: I’m in Guandong province, China, but more on that later). In LA County Superior court the trial judge ruled in favor of the insurers in a suit brought by the “new” Albertson’s. At issue is the interpretation of excess policy coverage and what […]
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