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.
There are few groups other than firefighters who are as popular as nurses. In California, nurses have become an important political force. Nurses were one of the groups who took the lead in Democratic party efforts to challenge the gubernatorial campaign of Meg Whitman. Nurses had a bus that traveled the state, dogging the “Queen […]
The results are in on an analysis of the brain All-Pro Dave Duerson. Duerson, who was a standout safety for 3 NFL teams over an 11 year career, committed suicide earlier this year. Shooting himself in the chest, he left a note asking that his brain be analyzed. Duerson himself expected that he had neurologic […]
A bill to loosen the cap on how long some disabled workers can draw temporary disability benefits advanced in a California Assembly committee today. The bill, AB 947 (Solorio), would add injuries that require treatment that cannot be medically completed within 104 weeks to a list of specified conditions that can qualify for a longer […]
In our society we tend to take a lot for granted. We tend to think our rights and benefits will be there when we want then and when we need them. And it’s easy to forget the hard-won victories of the past that brought us where we are. As unions find themselves under attack in […]
The California Workers’ Compensation Institute has unveiled a second research paper on opioid prescribing in the California workers’ comp system. The paper is titled ” Prescribing Patterns of Schedule II Opioids Part 2:Fentanyl Prescriptions in California Workers’ Compensation”. There has been increasing concern over the cost and increasing use of opioids in the system. The […]
The current version of The Economist, a British weekly newsmagazine, features a graphic of a California surfer holding a deformed surfboard. The piece is entitled “Where it all went wrong: California offers a warning to voters all over the world”. The deflated phallic image highlights the current California predicament. Political gridlock, as legislative vote math […]
In coming posts I’ll examine some of the workers’ comp bills that are bubbling through the legislative process. But overall it’s clear that this will not be a blockbuster year for any big changes in workers’ comp. The atmosphere in Sacramento is too poisonous, and workers’ comp is not high on priority lists. What are […]
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