Monthly Archives: December 2018

The California Court of Appeal, 1st District has now issued an opinion certified for publication in an important apportionment case, City of Petaluma V. WCAB (Aaron Lindh) (see text of the decision below). Lindh, a police canine officer, had injured his eye by receiving three to six blows to the head while doing training with a police [...]

Accidents and injuries happen every day. And often, people don’t seek compensation for their injuries because they are worried about the cost of an injury claim, or they think whatever they might get paid won’t be worth the time and effort. While this may be the case in some instances, it’s not always true. So [...]

RAND has posted its draft report on Medical -Legal reporting in California workers’ compensation. The report, authored by RAND researcher Barbara Wynn, titled “California Workers’ Compensation Medical-Legal Fee Schedule” notes that: “The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) Division of Workers Compensation (DWC) requested that RAND review the California workers’ compensation Medical-Legal (ML) fee schedule, [...]

Some deaths feel accidental, tragic, unavoidable. And some others feel so easily preventable. Malfunctions and accidents happen, but we hope that the systems we put in place to protect us from those inevitable dangers will work. And when they don’t, we want to hold them accountable. So it’s understandable that a person might expect a [...]

There’s nothing more tragic than the death of a child, but this death has an added element of tragedy. Two weeks after entering an ICE facility, and immigrant child died. The child’s mother is now suing for $60 million. Wrongful Death Lawsuit Yazmin Juarez’s healthy 19 month old daughter, Mariee, became ill with a respitory infection [...]