News Digest 5/2/2008
Oceanside Officer Wins $628K for Disability Discrimination A former Oceanside Police Department field evidence technician who was fired and sued the city for disability discrimination after it denied her workers’ …
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LXIII To PD Or Not PD
The level of permanent disability (PD) benefits is once again the talk of Sacramento. Though benefits significantly increased in 2002 with the passage of AB 749 (Calderon), the permanent disability …
News Digest 7/25/2007
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’ …
News Digest 5/15/2007
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 …
LV Outraged
If déà vu were an occupational disease, most of us would be on workers’ compensation. On March 28, the Assembly Insurance Committee will hear the latest, largely irrelevant data from …
LIV Keep It Simple, S—–
That strange odor you may smell from the general direction of Sacramento is a deal cooking on increasing permanent disability benefits. Consistent with the way workers’ compensation issues have been …
News Digest 3/7/2007
House Subcommittee Hears Testimony on Walter Reed Key witnesses call for a thorough overhaul of the Army’s disability retirement system during a House Oversight and Government Reform national security subcommittee …
News Digest 1/25/2007
Permanent Disability Payments Those in the know in Sacramento expect fireworks and change in the permanent disability rating schedule. Premium subscribers can find out which politicos and carriers are behind …