What happens when a QME issues a late report but the objecting party waits too long to object? And what is “too long to object”, anyway?...

The California Supreme Court declined to review the appellate court decision holding that the derivative injury doctrine does not...

On April 7, 2022, the Standards Board published its final version of its COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). The Board is...

We've all been there . . . you file a Petition for Reconsideration and advise your client that we will have an answer within 60 days. ...

Title 8, California Code of Regulations (CCR) section 36.7 is set to expire Friday, February 25, 2022. The Division of Industrial...

SB 114 that was signed last week and is effective 2/19/2022 created Labor Code section 248.6 and provides retroactive COVID Supplemental...

On February 1, 2022, California Assembly Member Tom Daly (Anaheim) proposed Assembly Bill 1751, which would serve to extend the COVID-19...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released an updated Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) Reference...

SCOTUS ruled today that an emergency rule issued by OSHA mandating that any private employer with at least 100 employees either adopt a...

Did you know that many law firms will designate an attorney as a “partner” despite that attorney having no stake in decision-making of...

The omicron variant, B.1.1.529, of SARS-CoV-2, was designated by the United States as a Variant of Concern (VOC) on November 30, 2021....

The Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) announced that effective tomorrow, January 12, 2022, all hearings would return to a virtual...