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.
In life and in public policy there is often a delicate balance between study and action. Between endless studies and premature action. Or hasty action with no studies. I got to thinking on this theme after attending Friday’s remote meeting of CHSWC, the California Commission on Health, Safety and Workers’ Compensation. Incidentally, it was the […]
California’s workers’ compensation needs more mental health treatment providers. A bill has now been introduced which may help address the problem. The bill is SB 1002 (Portantino). A link to the current bill text can be found below. Attorneys for injured workers can verify that it is frequently very difficult to identify doctors who will treat […]
The push to create a single-payer healthcare system in California is dead for this year. The bill to create single-payer, AB 1400 (Kalra) was headed to a California Assembly vote. But Assemblyman Ash Kalra pulled the bill before a vote, recognizing that the proposal did not have sufficient support at this time. What does this […]
Where is California workers’ comp headed in 2022? That’s the subject of the 2022 Workerscompzone quiz. Each year I kick off the year with a quiz for workers’ comp savants. In some instances there may be more than one correct answer, or perhaps none. But perhaps you can see through the fog. Give it a whirl…… […]
It’s time to take stock of 2021 in California’s workers’ comp system. This is a feature I’ve done every year since starting the blog in 2007. Here was the backdrop in 2021….Workers’ comp has been a backwater issue for some years now. Workers’ comp did not come up in the Newsom recall fight, and there […]
In 2021 the California Commission on Health Safety and Workers’ Compensation (CHSWC) has begun to be more skeptical about studies it commissions and the quality of such studies. Two recent studies have run into rough sledding. A February 25, 2001 report studying AB 1400 (i.e. cancer exposure of mechanics who repair and clean firefighting vehicles) […]
Eugene Treaster passed away in Sacramento in late October. Treaster was one of California ‘s leading applicant attorneys for decades, representing injured workers in Sacramento and Stockton for about 50 years. Gene Treaster was also my mentor and friend. It was a great pleasure to have known him, and I offer this remembrance to others […]
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