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.
2016 is half done, so it’s time for my annual mid-year look at California workers’ comp. Here, in no particular order, are the events and themes that seemed to stand out in the first half of 2016, with a bit of commentary: 1. Regulatory activity in the first half of 2016 was quiet. By mid 2016 […]
Is the Labor Code Section 4610.6(d) 30 day time-frame limit during which Maximus “shall” issue an Independent Medical Review determination “mandatory” or “directory”? That’s been one of the lingering uncertainties some four years after the passage of SB 863. And it’s a question that is at stake in several cases that have been pending at […]
Interest in the difference between California workers’ comp as practiced in Northern vs. Southern California continues to build. This was the topic at the 2016 WCIRB Annual Workers’ Compensation Conference in San Francisco, framed as “The California Conundrum. One System. Many Outcomes”. I missed that meeting, but David DePaolo has done three thoughtful blog posts […]
Provider fraud cases continue to generate big headlines in California workers’ comp. Last week the Orange County DA refiled charges against Dr. Kareem Ahmed and a number of other prominent Southern California physicians regarding an alleged fraudulent billing and kickback scheme. Today on Workcompcentral.com is a featured article noting a Riverside County indictment of Peyman […]
Tonight I received word that Rosa Moran has died. Most recently Moran had been on medical leave from her post as a Workers’ Compensation Judge in Oakland. In 2011 Governor Brown appointed her as the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation. Her tenure there was turbulent and short. With DIR head Christine Baker, […]
Recently I had the pleasure of speaking to a large QME training course, sponsored by the California Orthopedic Association. Joined by WCJ Noah Tempkin and defense attorney William Tappin, the focus of my segment of the training panel, held at Orange County’s Ritz-Carlton Resort at Laguna Niguel, was on “Almaraz/Guzman: What Works and What Doesn’t […]
Under what circumstances can a Maximus Independent Medical Review Determination be appealed? Under Labor Code 4610.6(h), the grounds for appealing an IMR determination are very limited. Challenges to the constitutionality of the IMR statute are currently pending, but the odds seem long that California courts will reject the IMR statute altogether. So court decisions clarifying […]
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