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.
Several days ago the California Workers’ Compensation Institute unveiled a new study on medical-legal costs in California. Those are the costs of evaluations, reports and testimony of forensic doctors in California workers’ comp cases as contrasted to payments made for treatment. I’m scheduled to speak in Oakland a March 2016 CWCI conference, and I’m sure […]
$4.25 for a San Francisco Hilton Hotel luncheon featuring Filet of Sole or Beef Bourguigonne? Not in 2016, that’s for sure, in a town where bunk bed spaces get rented to techies for thousands. But mentally transport yourself back to 1966, some 50 years ago. It was then that the newly formed California Applicants’ Attorneys […]
On January 7, 2016 the WCIRB unveiled a report analyzing changes in indemnity claim frequency (see link below). The report will continue to stoke the fires of those who are concerned about cumulative trauma claims in California. Of course, the classic cumulative trauma claim would be that of a construction worker or fireman who does heavy […]
Each year I start the year with a quiz on likely happenings in California workers’ comp during the coming year. This post contains my 2016 California workers’ comp quiz. Don’t be shy. Get out your crystal ball and your best soothsayer hat. E-mail your answers to me (at [email protected]). Time will tell, but in some instances […]
What were the most significant developments in California workers’ comp in 2015? Every so often California has a blockbuster year in workers’ comp where comp rises to the forefront of the news. 2015 was not such a year. Many issues continued to simmer, but few made it big. Still, here, in no particular order, is […]
As we approach the year’s end, I’ll soon be publishing my annual list of the Top 10 Developments in California workers’ comp. But first, a bit more on home health care, a subject addressed by proposed new chronic pain treatment guidelines. On December 19 the 15-day comment period on new chronic pain guidelines closed. It’s […]
Back in July 2015 I attended a meeting at RAND in Santa Monica along with a group of workers’ comp stakeholders. The meeting was to get a preliminary look at a RAND study being conducted to assess wage loss replacement under SB 863. The outlines of the study are becoming more clear. The RAND researchers doing […]
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