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.
AIG is back in the news, This time it’s in an analysis by New York Times financial reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin, who follows AIG in his Dealbook column. AIG, which was bailed out to the tune of $182 billion by the U.S. taxpayer, continues to write workers’ comp coverage through its Chartis division and a […]
The millennials get a lot of attention in our culture. Advertisers crave their eyeballs. Social media companies build software and business empires around their habits. Publishing and entertainment companies buckle under the weight of change wrought by their predilections. Sociologists debate whether they are the most apathy-prone generation, or on the verge of becoming one […]
The California Department of Industrial Relations and Division of Workers’ Compensation has announced plans for a series of 6 forums in April to solicit opinions about the direction of reforms to the California workers’ compensation system. The short press release notes the following schedule: Tuesday, April 10, 2012—West Sacramento, CA 95605 Monday, April 16, 2012—Los […]
In November 2011 California reached a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Labor on the issue of employee misclassification. According to the U.S Department of Labor: “The Department’s Misclassification Initiative, launched under the auspices of Vice President Biden’s Middle Class Task Force, is making great strides in combating this pervasive issue and to […]
The State Compensation Insurance Fund announced this week that it expects a 1% average decrease in its workers’ comp premiums. According to a SCIF statement, although some accounts will see a rate hike and although SCIF will adopt some “rate relativity” adjustments, overall employer policyholders will see a slight decrease in workers’ comp premiums. That’s […]
Are California workers’ comp benchmark rates stable or even decreasing? Or does the new methodology suggested by former Insurance Commissioner Poizner and used by current Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones actually mask a significant rate increase? This is a story that has received lots of attention in the workers’ compensation press, particularly in the Workers Comp […]
Seeking to plug the dike to prevent a deluge of litigation, the WCAB has issued another en banc in the Messele case. Let’s call it Messele Dos. After the recent Messele Uno case, the workers’ comp community has been rife with commentary about whether prior panel QME appointments might have been procedurally invalid and subject […]
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