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.
It appears that the DWC is prepared to get tougher on enforcement of IMR regulations. In a November 25, 2014 newsline the DWC announced that as of December it will begin to mete out penalties where claims administrators fail to send records to Maximus as required by Reg 9792.10.5. Here is what the DWC announced: […]
Aa a lawyer representing injured workers, I’ve often wondered how those workers perceive the end of the year holidays. Thanksgiving gives way to Black Friday, and then to Cyber Monday, and pretty soon the Christmas and New Year season is upon us. Many Americans experience the end of the year holidays as incredibly stressful. Whether […]
Can an insurer submit medication prescription requests to utilization review (UR) even where those medications have been repeatedly authorized before? That question has been hotly debated in California workers’ comp circles after a recent WCAB Significant Panel Decision, Patterson v. The Oaks Farm (2014) 79 CCC 910. The issue comes up again and again in […]
The American public is skeptical about workers’ comp. That’s the take away from results of a recent Harris Poll, noted in a workcompcentral.com by Ben Miller. Harris Interactive performed an October 2014 online survey of several thousand people, commissioned by a pharmacy company. Here are the questions Harris asked and their findings: “How strongly do […]
The non-campaign is over. Jerry Brown will soon be on his fourth lap in the governor’s office. It seems like just yesterday that Brown was speaking at a fundraiser at my house in Oakland, but actually it was four years ago. Brown stood on my back patio, looking toward the Golden Gate, addressing around one hundred […]
It’s certainly not impossible to think that California airline workers or healthcare workers could have frontline exposure to carriers of the Ebola virus. While this is principally a public health issue, it could morph into a significant workers’ comp issue. Thankfully the USA has only seen a handful of Ebola infections, and several of those infected have […]
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has yet to unveil opioid guidelines, though a draft was circulated for public comment in April 2014. The DWC isn’t the only California agency working on the topic. The Medical Board of California has posted a September 2014 draft titled “Guidelines for Prescribing Controlled Substances for Chronic Pain”. The […]
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