As summer approaches in California, Cal/OSHA has sent out a press release to remind employers to take the necessary precautions to...

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...

On March 21, 2022, the California State Senate's Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement voted  4 - 1 to advance SB 1127,...

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...

California's Second District Court of Appeal has rejected See's Candies' argument that workers' compensation was the exclusive remedy for...

After a two year hiatus, Hanna Brophy is out in action at the CALPELRA conference in gorgeous Monterey, CA. Join us at Booth 1 for...

David Zamora was hired as a "field supervisor" by Security Industry Specialists (SIS) which provides security staffing services to major...