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.
Strange brew-what’s inside of you may kill ya. Strange brew. Strange brew. I’m sitting here pondering the fate of AB 515, a bill currently under consideration in the California legislature that would regulate worker chemical exposures. I can hear the guitar riffs now. Strange brew, strange brew, strange brew- Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker. […]
My car keys are on a digital clock that counts down the days, hours and minutes til the end of the Bush Presidency. This hapless POTUS failed to press a war that needed to be won decisively against the Taliban and Qaeda (Afghanistan) and put us in a war that didn’t need to be fought […]
At a time when workers compensation benefits have been reduced and worker benefit packages shrunk, you’d think that many companies would have “cooled it” on executive compensation. Not so. Today’s Wall Street Journal article by Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis(see link at the close of my post) investigates the growing practice of funding executive […]
Those folks in Bentonville are at it again. Wal-Mart is jumping into the political arena. Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that Wal-Mart is organizing all its store managers and department heads to warn that an Obama victory would make it easier for workers to unionize. Thousands have been summoned to mandatory meetings meetings which advise […]
Feel better now? President Bush, Henry Paulson and Congress have cooked up their $300 billion housing rescue package. Perhaps this may help you, or your neighbors (if your lender cooperates and if the numbers still make sense for hanging onto a house rather than walking away from it). Or as a taxpayer, perhaps you are […]
George Carlin had his 7 words. The 7 words you can’t say on television.Remember what they were? If Gov. Schwarzenegger has his way with an executive order dropping state worker pay to minimum wage levels during the budget impasse , many Department of Industrial Relations employees will have their “two words”…. “f-him” Let’s hope the […]
My last post covered Tuesday’s Oakland hearings on the DWC proposal for a small increase in benefits for permanently disabled workers. What’s the position of the applicant attorneys on the issue? Is CAAA setting forth a proposal of its own? After all, interest groups are often reluctant to set forth policy proposals for fear that […]
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