Workers’ Compensation

A can't miss presentation for every workers' compensation litigator. Emphasis will be placed on recent “tweaks” to the law, as well as tips and lessons learned. Read more

The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) today announced in-person hearings will resume at all DWC district offices except Eureka beginning March 21, 2022. In-person hearings will consist of trials, lien trials, expedited hearings and special adjudication unit (SAU) trials only. Read more

Members of the California Lawyers’ Association, Workers’ Compensation Section, Community Outreach Subcommittee participated in Southwestern School of Law’s annual Succeeding in Law event on February 24, 2022. The event is designed to promote a more diverse and inclusive student body among law students. Read more

A new bill barring nondisclosure agreements from settlements in cases featuring discrimination, harassment, or retaliation is going to force employers and defendants to reconfigure how they craft their settlement releases and addenda. Read more

California’s Second District Court of Appeal has rejected employer See’s Candies workers’ compensation “exclusive remedy rule” defense in a COVID wrongful death lawsuit. The suit claims that the disease was contracted from a See’s employee who was negligently exposed to the virus in the workplace. Read more

2022 certainly has not brought the relief I’m sure we had all hoped for. From trouble on the world stage to Omicron these first few months of 2022 have certainly been rough. I encourage you all to take care of your mental and physical health in these trying times. Read more

 The Workers’ Compensation Section of the California Lawyers Association is pleased to request nominations for the Special Recognition Awards. The Special Recognition Awards is comprised of five separate award categories. Each has similar nominations/selection criteria. Learn more about the award here: https://calawyers.org/section/workers-compensation/special-recognition-awards/ Read more

This is your opportunity to learn from industry leaders that will show you how to mechanically work through a medical opinion to make it substantial evidence on apportionment. Read more

This program will provide an overview of the major changes to California Workers’ Compensation practice pursuant to entry into effect of the April 1, 2021, new medical legal fee schedule that introduced new requirements of the parties Read more

The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announces its emergency regulations 36.7 and 46.2 for medical-legal evaluations and reporting, which became effective on May 14, 2020 and were set to expire in October 2021, have been extended until January 11, 2022. Read more