Workers Comp Zone

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.

January 17, 2011

UNSCATHED?

You can’t pick up a newspaper in California these days without seeing a piece on the dire consequences for social services in California if budgets are trimmed. But how will workers’ comp fare? Will the comp system be forced to share in the pain, or will it be protected by the availability of “user funding”? […]


January 12, 2011

THE UNUSUAL COALITION

Compound drugs will be a hot California legislative and regulatory item in 2011. At the January 5, 2011 CHSWC meeting, Barbara O. Wynn of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice and RAND Health presented a study in process on compound drugs in California’ Workers’ Compensation System. As noted in a recent article by Los Angeles […]


January 7, 2011

A WORKFORCE OF GEEZERS

Your favorite Aunt worked hard, but also played hard. She lived pretty much paycheck to paycheck, like many people in our society. What little money was in her 401k pretty much dried up in the post-Lehman crash. The dream of twilight years sipping Tequila Sunrises at a Del Webb retirement community now fades. Auntie is […]


January 2, 2011

2011 CALIFORNIA WORKERS' COMP QUIZ

It’s time again for the blog’s workers’ compensation quiz. Test your perspicacity on all things comp related by taking the 2011 California workers’ compensation quiz. In some instances, more than one answer may be appropriate. At year’s end I’ll post the name of ye who is victorious, so get your answers in to [email protected] 1. […]


December 25, 2010

TOP 10 CALIFORNIA WORKERS' COMP EVENTS IN 2010

It’s time for the blog’s year end feature, the Top 10 developments in California workers’ comp in 2010. 2010 was not a year that saw blockbuster changes in California workers’ comp. Yet, there were many significant developments worth noting. What follows are workerscompzone’s picks, in no particular order: 1. RATE INCREASES REJECTED BY POIZNER; RATES […]


December 1, 2010

NOTHING WASTED

The car turns down a side road, off a fine highway onto a somewhat-rutted track. Next we pull into a small courtyard. In the small office sits a 6 foot long fish tank. A big white fish, all alone, lounges dreamily. Its yellow eyes seem to reach out in communication. Meanwhile, the TV blares a […]


NOTHING WASTED

The car turns down a side road, off a fine highway onto a somewhat-rutted track. Next we pull into a small courtyard. In the small office sits a 6 foot long fish tank. A big white fish, all alone, lounges dreamily. Its yellow eyes seem to reach out in communication. Meanwhile, the TV blares a […]