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.
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. […]
Is an untimely IMR determination grounds for an appeal of the IMR determination? That was the issue in Norberto Arredondo v. Tri-Modal Distribution Services and SCIF. In a 2-1 decision authored by Commissioners Zalewski and Lowe (with a dissent from Commissioner Sweeney), the answer is no. The applicant contended that the IMR determination did not […]
AB 305, aimed at preventing gender discrimination in workers’ comp, continues to advance in the legislature. The bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego, survived an Assembly Insurance committee vote and will proceed to the Assembly. The bill would prohibit apportionment determinations in physical injury cases based on factors of osteoporosis, pregnancy or […]
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