Recent News Items
- Understanding WCIRB Coverage Information (August 2021)
- Homeowner Work Comp Claims: Statutes & Cases (April 2021)
Recent Newsletters
As a service to our clients, we are pleased to provide the "HEWS One Minute Work Comp News" e-newsletter. A copy of the current and prior newsletters are listed below.
- November 2024 - Consolidation and Stay Order
- October 2024 - 2024 Legislative Update
- September 2024 - Subtle Change to Labor Code 5909
- August 2024 - No Exclusivity Rule When COVID Outbreak Concealed By Employer
- July 2024 - En Banc WCAB Decision Re: CVC & Kite
- June 2024 - Attorney Firm Sanctioned $40,000 by WCAB
- May 2024 - All Liens of Solakyan Companies Dismissed
- April 2024 - Third Party Credit Case
- March 2024 - Commutation of Life Pension Attorney Fee Based Upon 3% SAWW
- February 2024 - Presumed Compensability and Good Faith Personnel Action Defense Evidence
- January 2024 - Latest Case on Delayed Recon Decisions
- December 2023 - TTD Rates Remain Unchanged for 2024
- November 2023 - 2022 Audit Results
- August 2023 - 2023 Work Comp Signed Legislation
- July 2023 - Return Of Nunes: VOC Experts Must Follow The Law
- June 2023 - WCAB's Grant Study Practice Invalidated
- May 2023 - Important COVID Case For Employers
- April 2023 - Good Faith Personnel Action Not So Restrictive
- March 2023 - Insidious Progressive Disease and Extended PD Jurisdiction
- February 2023 - PEO Bison Workforce Is Gored
- January 2023 - CA Appeals Court Saves Proposition 22
- December 2022 - Emergency Medical-Legal Evaluation Regulations Become Permanent
- November 2022 - New Work Comp Laws For 2023
- October 2022 - UR Cannot Decertify Prior UR Approval
- September 2022 - 2021/2022 Legislative Overview
- August 2022 - Privette Doctrine Barred Claim
- July 2022 - Misdemeanor Conviction Barred Claim
- June 2022 - July 2022 Changes in the Mileage Rate and Copy Service Fee Schedule
- May 2022 - Documents Supporting Independent Contractor Status
- April 2022 - Old Rule Revived: Med-Legal Reports Can Again Be Electronically Served
- March 2022 - Six Month Psych Rule Clarified
- February 2022 - Non-Submittal MSAs Under Fire
- January 2022 - New WCAB Rules Effective 1/1/2022
- December 2021 - EE's Family Can Proceed w/COVID Civil Claim
- November 2021 - Increase in CA Minimum Wage and TD Impact
- October 2021 - 2020/2021 Legislative Overview
- September 2021 - PQME Expedited Hearing Conflict Addressed
- August 2021 - CA Supreme Court Declines New Exception to Privette Doctrine
- July 2021 - No Jury Trial on Coverage Issue
- June 2021 - Vital Imaging CEO Convicted Of Work Comp Kickback Scheme
- May 2021 - Applied Materials: No Shortcut To 100% PD
- April 2021 - Injunction Banning "ABC Test" is Overturned
- March 2021 - Unique Bunkhouse Rule Case
- February 2021 - Dramatic New Medical-Legal Fee Schedule
- January 2021 - Division: Burden on Six Month Psych Rule
- December 2020 - Lynn Peterson Joining the HEWS Law Firm
- November 2020 - New CAL/OSHA Emergency Regulations
- October 2020 - The ABC Test is Undermined Again: Proposition 22 Passes
- September 2020 - Independent Contractor Rules Overhauled
- August 2020 - SB 1159: COVID-19 Urgency Legislation
- July 2020 - En Banc Decision: Add or CVC on SIBTF Cases
- June 2020 - Emergency Regulations Adopted for Medical-Legal Reporting Re: COVID-19
- May 2020 - Gov. Newsom Orders COVID Presumption
- April 2020 - Highlighting New WCAB Procedures
- March 2020 - COVID-19 Impacting Upcoming Hearings
- February 2020 - Highlighting New WCAB Procedures
- January 2020 - Vocational Experts Still Applicable
- December 2019 - Apportionment to Smog Not Allowed
- November 2019 - Legal Challenges Arise to "ABC Test"
- October 2019 - New California Work Comp Laws for 2020
- September 2019 - Dynamex's "ABC Test" Codified, Borello Takes a Back Seat
- August 2019 - Jurisdiction to Determine Jurisdiction
- July 2019 - Coming and Going Rule Addressed
- June 2019 - WCAB Defines "Catastrophic Injury"
- May 2019 - Clarifying When COLA Benefits Begin
- April 2019 - Homeowner Policy Does Not Cover Employees of an Uninhabitable Dwelling
- March 2019 - "De Facto Control" Sufficient for a Lien Stay Order
- February 2019 - Independent Contractor Test: The Legislative Battle Begins
- January 2019 - Apportionment to Asymptomatic Condition allowed by Court of Appeal
- December 2018 - Happy Holidays
- November 2018 - Anti-Fraud Lien Laws are Constitutional
- October 2018 - Work Comp Legislative Update
- September 2018 - Control of the PQME Appointment
- August 2018 - Reach of Labor Code 4615 "Stays" Addressed
- July 2018 - DWC announces 2019 Temporary Disability Indemnity Rate
- June 2018 - No turkey leftovers in determining U.R. response time
- May 2018 - CA Supreme Court modifies the test for independent contractor status