Richard Jacobsmeyer

There is now more literature to support apportionment, where previously the W.C.A.B. had been rejecting such opinions.

The ruling on independent medical review provides nuggets for challenges to the authority of the W.C.A.B. to review medical decisions.

Applicants' attorneys hope to usurp the medical decision making process in workers' comp and base it on litigation.

The court closed what could have turned into a significant expansion of the concept of “sudden and extraordinary employment condition.”

The court was dismissive of the challenge, leaving discretion with the California legislature on how to fix workers' comp's problems.

Plaintiffs challenged workers' comp's exclusive remedy provision based on exposure to work-related asbestos outside the workplace.

The appeals court's long-awaited decision is a knockout blow that lets the California legislature stop lien litigation madness.

If we were ever under the illusion that the rule was an inflexible legal concept, this case should certainly dispel the notion.

California appellate judges say the law's changes to certain reviews under workers' comp are NOT retroactive.

California's Workers' Compensation Appeals Board reverses itself and says utilization reviews can only be contested based on timeliness.