A former baseball player applied for adjudication of an alleged cumulative trauma injury on May 9, 2017. His last date of exposure to the rigors of the game was June 14, 1978. Now, the Fourth District Court of Appeal is annulling a Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board decision and ordering it to determine the proper date …
Over 40% of all litigated claims in California’s workers’ comp now link to an alleged cumulative trauma (CT) injury. The rate is up over ten percentage points since 2010, and the trend is being driven primarily by claims from the Los Angeles Basin, including a large bump since the start of the pandemic. “We went …
The long-feared spike in workers’ comp cumulative trauma claims due to the Covid-19 pandemic and recession may now be materializing. For two years, industry analysts have been looking for early indicators of a spike in CT claims in transactional data, but it wasn’t apparent. Until now. The first unit stat data for 2020 shows a …