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.
Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced yesterday a 6% reduction in license fees that are paid by California insurance agents and brokers. Poizner is also reducing the special assessment paid by insurers that is targeted for fighting fraud. How’s that for pandering? California’s budget is billions of dollars in arrears. State employees may be furloughed. Poizner’s […]
The applicants attorneys conference in San Diego drew to a close today. In some coming posts I’ll be commenting on some of the nuggets from the CAAA confab. Hold that video? That’s the upshot of today’s interesting presentation by Los Angeles attorney Lawrence I. Stern of Mallery and Stern. Defendants in California workers’ comp frequently […]
When most people think of workers’ comp, they think of accidents at work. Occupational diseases due to workplace chemicals and other hazards get less attention. Under the recently departed Bush administration, there was little progress in addressing the hazards of workplace chemicals. I’m happy to see the New York Times piece by Felicity Barringer that’s […]
I’m at the winter Applicants Attorney Conference in San Diego. Here’s a live blog on “The Most Important Cases”. I’m paraphrasing some comments as they go along (caution: the following are a selection of the opinions of various panelists and may or may not be accurate or represent a consensus among experienced comp professionals) First […]
The long wait is over. Governor Schwarzenegger has filled the last open slot on the California Workers Compensation Appeals Board. The appointment went to a fellow Republican, Greg Aghazarian. Aghazarian represented an area encompassing San Joaquin County as an elected member of the California Assembly (26th District) from 2002 to 2008. Aghazarian (who I’ve never […]
Later, alligator. That’s the message Acting Administrative Director Carrie Nevans delivered to future injured workers in her talk to a Sacramento workers’ compensation conference yesterday. Earlier this year the DWC had floated a proposal for a revision of the 2005 Permanent Disability Rating Schedule. That proposal-designed for implementation in January 2009- would have restored a […]
AIG is a pretty wacky company. AIG has just been “saved” by the U.S. taxpayers, who now hold an 80% stake in the company while AIG attempts to reorganize and sell off some of its component businesses (AIG may or may not sell off some of its insurance subsidiaries who write California comp coverage). AIG […]
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