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THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SCOPE OF A COMPROMISE AND RELEASE
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SCOPE OF A COMPROMISE AND RELEASE In Jaime Estrela v. Permanente Medical Group 2023 WL 6061161 (Cal.W.C.A.B.), the Workers’ Compensation Appeals
ALWAYS REMEMBER THE BEST DEFENSE IS A STRONG OFFENSE
In Gerald Zelnik v. Office of Statewide Health Planning,[1] the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board confirmed that defendants have a right to assert a good faith
THE SHORT RIDE HOME: THE FURTHER SHAPING OF THE PREMISES LINE RULE
In Rose Jones v. Regents of the University of California (10/31/23) 2023 Daily Journal D.A.R. 281, the Court of Appeal for the Fourth district of
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE VOCATIONAL APPORTIONMENT EMPIRE
Can a vocational expert’s opinion on apportionment supersede and/or replace medical apportionment determined by a treating or evaluating physician for the purposes of total permanent
THE TALE OF THE VEXATIOUS LITIGANT
The recent panel decision, Marva Smith v. Solar Turbines, Inc., ADJ12010500, reads like a crime thriller novel with a dizzying, whirlwind of conspiracy theories postulated
IT’S JUST A MATTER OF WORKING BY SLOW DEGREES
“If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot
Workers’ Compensation is a Three-Card Monte Game to Find the Lady at the End of the Frame
In Case v. Union Dodge, Inc., 2023 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. Lexis 94, a recent panel decision discussed how there can be more than one
TENACITY OF THE ENEMY
All philosophers, who find Some favourite system to their mind, In every point to make it fit, Will force all nature to submit. – Headlong
THE TWO SIDES OF THE COVID-19 PRESUMPTIONS
A Haiku for the poetry of worker’s compensation, and the two sides of the COVID-19 presumptions: 2020’s ruse COVID-19 hangover Presumption guarded As we approach
Without poetry, we lose our way
The Case Brief this month deals with the poetry of apportionment faced with a presumption. Only an Oxfordian court could torture the promulgation of a