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.
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 […]
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has been given more breathing room to complete final regulations.Currently the DWC is still operating under temporary regulations adopted in late 2012 as “emergency regulations”on the following matters:-supplemental job displacement benefit vouchers-QMEs-Independent Medial Review-Independent Bill Review-interpreter services-lien filing feesFinal regs are being drafted on all of these, with many […]
U.S. Supreme Court cases involving the Voting Rights Act, affirmative action and gay marriage may be getting most of the attention as the Supreme Court winds up its term.But two decisions announced at the end of the court’s term are worth noting for the impact they will have on certain civil discrimination suits filed under […]
AB 76 is a “trailer bill” that has sailed along at the California legislature under the radar. The bill deals with many topics, but includes workers’ comp provisions. Specifically, the bill deals with the $120 million fund to compensate workers who have suffered disproportionate wage loss. Workers injured before 1/1/13 would not be able to […]
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