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.
Scandal is roiling California’s Capitol, and workers’ comp is involved. According to the Sacramento Bee article by Laurel Rosethal, an FBI affidavit (published online by Al-Jazeera America) alleges that legislators Tom and Ron Calderon ” were involved in a bribery scheme with Michael Drobot, owner of Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, which specializes in spinal […]
One of the larger questions surrounding the 2012 SB 863 California workers’ comp reforms is how “catastrophic” will be interpreted. Labor Code 4660.1(c) was added to prevent permanent disability ratings for psychiatric disability (and sleep and sexual dysfunction) for post 1/1/2013 cases “arising out of a physical injury”. This would encompass so called “physical-mental” injuries […]
The 2013 California legislative season is over. This year it ended with Governor Brown nixing six bills that either involved workers’ comp or had workers’ comp ramifications. Here is a list of the six vetoed by Brown: 1. SB 258 (Lieu). Brown’s veto message indicated that he did not oppose the bill’s provisions that relate […]
Workerscompzone has been on the road (in Catalunya) for the last 2 weeks, and thus less blogging on California’s workers’ comp scene. Next year there will probably be a vote on whether Calalans want to secede from Spain. Judging from the amount of red and yellow Catalan independence flags draped from apartments around Barcelona and […]
A DWC newsline summarizes he proposed changes in the IMR regs:http://www.dir.ca.gov/dwc/dwc_newslines … f#zoom=100 One particular recent concern about IMR has been the reports that Maximus was acting on cases where the carrier had failed to submit medical reports.I wrote about that several months ago in a post titled “Sandbagged”:http://www.workerscompzone.com/index.ph … 712-190054 Will the revised proposed […]
An excellent July 12 piece on Independent Medical Review by Greg Jones of Workcompcentral.com notes a troubling trend.It seems that some IMR decisions are being rendered without the IMR physician reviewer having the medical records.As of 7/1/13 IMR is now in effect for medical disputes for all dates of injury, even injuries that occurred decades […]
The DWC has now issued yet another set of proposed voucher regulations.Since the end of 2012 the DWC has been operating under emergency voucher regulations, which were recently readopted. The Division is currently on its 3rd 15 day comment period for the regs. A link to these can be found at the bottom of this […]
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