A California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board panel has rejected State Compensation Insurance Fund’s attempt to bully a hospital into accepting deeply discounted payments based on a contract between the hospital and Blue Cross, even though State Fund was not party to that contract. According to the decision, State Fund’s assertion that Blue Cross discounts applied …
Exotic Dancer Can Collect Workers’ Comp for Pole-Dancing Injury The Indiana Court of Appeals upholds and increases a workers’ compensation award for an exotic dancer who suffered a cervical disc …
California Appeals Court Upholds Disability Rating Schedule A California appeals court Tuesday sided with an employer and Zurich North America Insurance Co. by upholding the use of a post-reform workers’ …
Ninth Circuit Remands Case of Shipboard Photographer The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals finds that a photographer who took and sold photos of visitors to the USS Arizona is not …
WCAB Judge: Permanent Disability Formula Arbitrary Applicants’ attorneys claim a major victory after Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Judge Jacqueline C. Duncan rules that the state’s formula for calculating permanent disability …
Sharon Babbit v. Ow Jing dba National Market The Workers Compensation Appeals Board has just released three En Banc decisions. In one case (Sharon Babbitt v. Ow Jing dba National Market; and Golden Eagle Insurance Company, STK 0174793) the Board granted reconsideration to study the issue. According to the Appeals Board decision, the applicant, Sharon …
The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board has designated the decision in Caryl Erickson v. Southern California Permanente Medical Group/Permanente 9 WCAB Rptr. 10,034 [WCAB Nos. POM246580 and POM246582} as a Significant Panel Decision. In this case the Appeals Board as deferred the issue of the calculation of the amount of the permanent disability indemnity due to …
Nurse Cites Purported Constitutional Right to Pain Avoidance A suit filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by a registered nurse against the acting director of …