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By Ernest A. Canning Originally Published Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Excerpts Below ... ……SB 899…Thanks to the law's massive reduction in prohibitive penalties that could have been assessed for bad faith refusals to furnish vital, life-sustaining medical treatment --- the new penalties are a drop-in-the-bucket compared to what it had cost to keep him alive --- Charles is no longer with us...
A recent report that estimated the cost to California employers of cumulative injury claims filed by professional athletes contains a fundamental flaw that completely invalidates its findings. The report examined the cost of "California cumulative injury claims" filed, and expected to be filed, by athletes who played for professional sports teams during the last 30 years. According to this report, the estimated expected cost of these claims in 2011 was $82.1 million. The report concludes that if this figure were included in the most recent workers’ compensation insurance rate filing, the California pure premium would be higher by approximately 1.3% ....
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, May 17, 2013
SACRAMENTO, CA - The California Applicants’ Attorneys Association (CAAA) Women’s Caucus, whose members represent Californians injured on the job, today called for a focus on work injuries common to women and identification of solutions. “As the percentage of women in the workforce has steadily increased, and as more women have taken on jobs ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Workers’ Compensation insurance carrier denies care, defies judge’s order to provide care, patient dies, WCAB orders an audit of Sedgwick to examine pattern and practice of denials of care. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 8, 2013
FRESNO, CA – Clovis resident Zack Follett, a former Detroit Lions linebacker who would be barred by AB 1309 (Perea) from even filing a claim against the Lions’ workers’ compensation insurance carrier in California, today protested the measure outside Assem. Perea’s office.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, April 19, 2013
AB 1309 (Perea) shifts NFL owners’ injury costs to taxpayers, aiding billionaires in avoiding responsibility for players’ injuries, including dementia, Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig’s disease - Workers’ compensation is insurance that employers are required to purchase to cover injuries to employees arising from their work. Shielding billionaire out-of-state team owners from their liability to provide medical treatment and disability compensation to their injured players doesn’t have any impact on the workers’ compensation insurance costs for California employers. AB 1309 seeks to protect billionaire sports team owners on the backs of injured athletes. FOR RELEASE: Thursday, April 18, 2013
By Dirk Stemerman On the Job Originally Published Thursday, April 11, 2013 Just months after California politicians credited themselves with "reforming workers' compensation, they're back again with Assembly Bill 1309, which aims to stop some professional athletes from receiving workers' compensation benefits in California.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, April 12, 2013
While the ongoing dispute concerning whether professional sports employees (aka athletes) in the National Football League can seek redress for their work injuries in California in contravention to collective bargaining contract provisions seems limited in scope, what happens with the NFL cases can have implications for many, many different occupations.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
SACRAMENTO, CA - The California Applicants’ Attorneys Association (CAAA), whose members represent Californians injured on the job, today called for collaboration in the implementation of SB 863. “CAAA supports the permanent disability compensation increases the Administration enacted, but we are concerned that some employees who are unable to return to their jobs will no longer be able to prove the extent of their ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, September 18, 2012
LOS ANGELES, CA - The California Applicants’ Attorneys Association (CAAA), whose members represent Californians injured on the job, today announced that it has installed a new president and team of officers for the coming year. Incoming CAAA President Larry Stern of Mallery & Stern, a Los Angeles firm specializing in fighting for the rights of California’s injured workers, said his priorities would include implementation of, and education about, SB 863. “CAAA ....
Published 09-07-2012 5:00 PM
This May Day, Fight for Workers' Rights! This year on May 1, May Day, immigrant workers in Los Angeles are doing more than marching for immigrants' rights, they are taking action at work. Hotel workers, janitors, LAX airport workers and sanitation...
Published 04-25-2012 4:39 PM by caaaAdmin
Published by Capitol Weekly 04/25/12 12:00 AM PST Click on the above link to add a comment to Brad's article . At a series of public forums held this month by Christine Baker, Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, and Rosa Moran, Administrative...
Published 04-25-2012 4:05 PM by caaaAdmin
LA Labor On the Move This year on May 1, May Day, immigrant workers in Los Angeles are doing more than marching for immigrants' rights, they are taking action at work. Hotel workers, janitors, LAX airport workers and sanitation workers will all hold...
Published 04-25-2012 11:44 AM by caaaAdmin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546, Steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft FRESNO, CA - Injured workers and their advocates told the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) Director Christine Baker...
Published 04-19-2012 9:29 AM by caaaAdmin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546, Steve@hopcraft.com ; Twitter: @shopcraft LOS ANGELES, CA - Injured workers and their advocates told the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) Director Christine Baker...
Published 04-17-2012 11:09 AM by caaaAdmin
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments. Lisa Barkett, 52, of La Jolla, has been appointed to the Race Track Leasing Commission as a representative of the 22nd District Agricultural Association, San Diego Fair Board. She...
Published 02-13-2012 2:27 PM by caaaAdmin
CAAA is pleased with the appointment of Christine Baker to the position of Director of DIR. We will continue to work with Director Baker and her staff to solve the problems caused by the failed policies of the prior Administration. We will continue to...
Published 12-12-2011 10:41 AM by caaaAdmin
Governor Brown Announces Appointments Ronnie Caplane, 63, of Oakland, has been appointed chair of the Workers Compensation Appeals Board, where she has served as a member since 2003. She was a freelance writer and columnist for the Piedmonter and the...
Published 12-07-2011 1:52 PM by caaaAdmin
Two-Year Temporary Disability Limit Harms Severely Injured Workers: Extend Insurance for the Seriously Injured; Assembly Insurance Committee to Consider AB 947 (Solorio) Temporary Disability insurance frequently ends before recovery from serious work...
Published 05-04-2011 2:45 PM by caaaAdmin
Monday, April 16, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546, Steve@hopcraft.com ; Twitter: @shopcraft SACRAMENTO, CA - The California Applicants' Attorneys Association (CAAA) today questioned the need for the pure premium rate filing submitted to...
Published 04-16-2012 4:31 PM by caaaAdmin
Employers and insurers speak of excessive costs and endless litigation while applicant attorneys, doctors and injured workers tell stories of bureaucratic delays and inadequate medical treatment. As the Department of Industrial Relations kicked off its...
Published 04-12-2012 2:41 PM by caaaAdmin
The State of the System Report 2012 As the 2012 Legislative session opens there is widespread agreement by California's workers' compensation system stakeholders that permanent disability benefits should be increased. New data from the California...
Published 03-29-2012 3:49 PM by caaaAdmin
Senate Hears from Injured Workers, Advocates:SB 899 "Appalling" Impact on Injured Worker MedicalCare and Disability Compensation SACRAMENTO, CA - Injured workers and their advocates told the State SenateIndustrial Relations and Assembly Insurance...
Published 03-28-2012 4:47 PM by caaaAdmin
CAAA supports San Francisco's hotel workers by moving the Summer 2012 Convention from the Hyatt Embarcadero to the San Francisco Marquis Marriot. Click here for information regarding the Hyatt Boycott. Click on the photo below for more information...
Published 02-17-2012 1:34 PM by caaaAdmin
"We hear a great deal about allegedly fraudulent claims by injured workers. But we thank our friends at WILG, and especially Leonard Jernigan of North Carolina, for the following list of: Top 10 Employer/Insurance Carrier Fraud Cases Brad Chalk"...
Published 01-17-2012 4:59 PM by caaaAdmin
By Mark Gearheart, Esq. On October 26, 2011, the California Supreme Court issued an order denying defendants’ Petition for Review of the First District Court of Appeal’s opinion in Ogilvie v. City and County of San Francisco . The Appellate...
Published 10-27-2011 1:29 PM by caaaAdmin
The California Supreme Court issued its decision today in Baker v. WCAB, addressing the issue of when the cost of living adjustments (COLA) contained in Labor Code Section 4659(c) are first calculated for payments of permanent total disability and life...
Published 08-12-2011 10:42 AM by caaaAdmin
The California Applicants’ Attorneys Association (CAAA), whose members represent Californians injured while doing their jobs, today welcomed Governor Brown’s appointee as Administrative Director (AD) of the Division of Workers’ Compensation...
Published 07-19-2011 7:03 PM by caaaAdmin
SACRAMENTO - The Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee today passed AB 1155 (Alejo), which bans race, gender and age discrimination in awarding disability compensation to workers injured on the job by a 5 to 1 vote. The measure now goes to the...
Published 07-07-2011 3:11 PM by caaaAdmin
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