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.

March 6, 2008

DATELINE: THE DWC ANNUAL CONFERENCE (PART 1)

Dateline Oakland. Alas, it would be sexier if I could say this dateline was from Timbuktu, Tunis, or Tbilisi. But the 15th Annual Workers’ Compensation Conference sponsored by the California DWC wrapped up yesterday just a few blocks from my Boxer & Gerson offices. At least the DWC puts on a good conference. There were […]


DATELINE: THE DWC ANNUAL CONFERENCE (PART 1)

Dateline Oakland. Alas, it would be sexier if I could say this dateline was from Timbuktu, Tunis, or Tbilisi. But the 15th Annual Workers’ Compensation Conference sponsored by the California DWC wrapped up yesterday just a few blocks from my Boxer & Gerson offices. At least the DWC puts on a good conference. There were […]


March 4, 2008

THE STOCKTON RECORD: "A WORKERS' COMPENSATION NIGHTMARE"

Unless you’re a Central Valley resident, you probably didn’t catch the piece several days ago in the Stockton record, “A Workers’ Compensation Nightmare” by Record staff writer Joe Goldeen. Here’s a link to the piece:http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ … /803020322 Stay tuned. I’m attending the statewide DWC conference in Oakland and will be doing a post on news […]


March 1, 2008

WATCH THE VIDEO

Alert for all the couch potatos out there. Time to pull yourself away from reruns of The Addams Family or The Sopranos or Beavis and Butthead. You can watch The Wire or 24 later. Don’t be tempted to start the Laurence Olivier festival-from Hamlet to Marathon Man-this weekend. Why? I’ve got some better video for […]


February 28, 2008

BREAKING NEWS: NUNEZ SUCCESSOR SELECTED

In closed a closed door session this afternoon, California Assembly Democrats decided to give the nod to Assemblywoman Karen Bass to succeed termed out Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. Bass was not in the Assembly in 2004 and did not vote on SB 899, the Schwarzenegger workers’ comp reform bill. Generally Bass has supported labor interests […]


BILL TO BAN BIAS CLEARS COMMITTEE

Earlier today the California Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee voted in favor of SB 1115, the bill that would ban age, race and gender discrimination in awarding disability compensation to California workers. The bill will eventually have to make its way through the California Assembly on its way to the governor’s desk. Among those […]


February 27, 2008

HEARINGS ON THE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION BILL

The California State Senate Labor and Insurance subcommittee holds hearings Wednesday on the bill to prohibit discrimination in workers’ compensation. Here’s the bill, SB 1115 (sponsored by State Senator Carole Migden):http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/s … oduced.pdf The concept behind the bill is strikingly simple: there should be no discrimination in workers compensation based on gender, race, age, and […]