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.
Some of you have been twiddling your thumbs for the last several years waiting for a titanic appellate court battle between conflicting appellate districts on the Almaraz-Guzman doctrine. Stakeholder groups made a pretty penny sponsoring seminars on the impending battle. Charlatans came out of the woodwork, barnstorming the state with their seminars and tutorials. Early […]
UPDATED/CORRECTED ENTRY: after this post, Governor Brown today vetoed the state budget passed last night. State Treasurer Bill Lockyer anounced that Wall Street would not finance state revenue needs based on some of the budget’s assumptions. So the sale of WCAB district offices again is in limbo……………… The sale of California state buildings is on […]
In any large industry, there are temptations to cut corners. Workers’ comp is no exception. Among those who may be tempted are some medical providers. Today a 181 page indictment was announced in Orange County. Prosecutors have charged Newport Beach radiologist Dr. Sim Carlisle Hoffman with alleged $17 million in workers’ comp fraud. Other alleged […]
Among the state boards and commissions on Governor Brown’s chopping block are the Fair Employment and Housing Commission and the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, aka the Cal-OSHA Standards Board. I’m no Cal-OSHA expert, but I checked in with a source with extensive experience in OSHA matters to learn what this would mean. Here […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger, full of bravado, threatened to “blow up boxes” in Sacramento. Tomorrow, with his budget revise, Governor Brown will outline plans to do just that. Partly it’s a function of the looming chaos in Sacramento, where the way forward out of the budget mess is murky. And perhaps it’s also a function of a […]
As a lawyer representing injured workers’ I’ve met all kinds of colleagues over the years. Some of my colleagues came to the practice after being union organizers, social workers, criminal defense attorneys, union-side labor lawyers, or court reporters. Some did comp insurance defense work, tired of it, and decided to help workers. Some, like me, […]
Perhaps this year is the year. During the Schwarzenegger years, the governor repeatedly vetoed bills that would have outlawed discrimination in apportionment determinations in workers’ comp. That anti-discrimination concept, currently embodied in AB 1155, may well face a better fate during the Brown years. Today the bill passed out of the California Assembly on a […]
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