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.

September 24, 2009

THE REGULATIONS STUDY

Is California unduly burdened by too many regulations? Are we “economically unfree”? Are our laws and tax policies driving away business and investment? That’s the argument made in a study unveiled by the Governor’s “Small Business Advocate”. It’s a study that we’ll see cited in future legislative debates and in the 2010 gubernatorial campaign. The […]


September 21, 2009

THE PEARL

(Workerscompzone has been traveling; this is the last in a series from Croatia before returning to more meat and potato issues on workers’ comp and employee rights…..) Dubrovnik…..A study in survival…. Some refer to Dubrovnik as the pearl of the Adriatic. Anancient walled city, built of cream colored stone, it spills down from steep hills […]


September 17, 2009

A GOOD TIME TO BE GONE

Korcula,Croatia….. It seems like a good time to be out of the country. From this little medieval town of Korcula on a small island, purportedly the home of Marco Polo (Venice and Genoa had a whopper of a sea battle near here on September 9, 1298), the antics of modern day America seem strange…. Kanye […]


September 14, 2009

MAKING HEALTHCARE REFORM WORK

It’s looking grim for “the public option” in healthcare reform. Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, is a key potential swing vote in the Senate on healthcare reform. Snowe today said there is “no way” a healthcare reform with a public option can pass out of the Senate:http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= … Sy1YRWktbc And yet some Democratic progressives appear determined […]


September 13, 2009

WI-FYING

I love the internet. I can be here in Hvar, Croatia, on holiday, with an espresso in one hand and gelato in the other, meanwhile reading the latest newsworthy bits about California. Cafe wi-fi is sweet. Yachts pull up and depart, as a steady stream of Italians and Croats from Split and Zagreb sit in […]


June 29, 2009

THE LAKE

Folks in Sacramento call it The Lake. You may know it as Tahoe. The nation’s second deepest lake, the summer Tahoe features a handful of snowy peaks and mahogany Gar Wood and Carlo Riva “woodie” runabout boats as well as gorgeous hiking and biking trails and classic watering holes. It’s here, at nearby Squaw Valley, […]


June 27, 2009

A THIRD FURLOUGH DAY?

There’s word today that Governor Schwarzenegger is threatening a third state employee furlough day. Despite “user funding”, only some SCIF employees are currently exempted from thecurrent two day furlough. A three day furlough would further slow business at the state’s Workers’ CompensationAppeals Boards. User funding is not saving the WCAB from pain. As of Friday […]