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 California Insurance Guarantee Association has dropped it its Petition for a Writ filed in the California Court of Appeal, 3rd District in the case CIGA VS. WCAB (Smith). Pursuant to CIGA’s recent request, the 3rd District issued a March 18, 2015 order that “Pursuant to petitioner’s written request, the petition for writ of review filed […]
Delays in the Independent Medical Review process are no laughing matter for workers who are waiting for a determination on treatments sought by their physicians. Still, I’ve had to chuckle as I read a series of articles in Workcompcentral.com over the last few days about the question of missing medical records in IMR cases. This […]
Normally workers’ comp doesn’t get much national media attention. To begin with, it is somewhat arcane . And with systems varying from state to state, it is not an easy subject to cover. Generally, there is not much headline appeal in the topic. Economic justice is becoming a more frequent topic in the media, but that […]
Gender bias has no place in California workers’ comp. That’s the premise of AB 305, a bill being sponsored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego. At a press conference yesterday Gonzalez spoke about her bill, flanked by Christine Pelosi, Chair of the Democratic Party Women’s Caucus, Catherine Cobb of Teamsters Local 2010 and members of […]
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 […]
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