Quick & Reliable Workers’ Comp Answers
Advice from the bench, over 70 forms, practice-proven strategies, and 4,000 case discussions.
Since 1980, Judge (Ret.) Sheldon St. Clair’s California Workers’ Compensation Law & Practice has been the “go to” resource when tough questions arise.
California Workers' Compensation Law & Practice provides start-to-finish guidance – over 250 pages – on readying and trying your case. You receive detailed explanations of procedures, strategies for circumventing traps and maximizing opportunities, solutions to common problems, and governing law for:
Determination of medical issues
- The AME/QME process
- Required notices
- Formal medical evaluation procedures
- Reports of medical evaluations
- Recovery of medical-legal costs
- Filing or serving reports
- Medical records
- Pre-trial discovery
Trial
- Setting for trial
- Expedited hearings
- Mandatory settlement conference
- Notices
- Disqualification of WCJs
- Arbitration process
- NIT procedures
Judgments
- Finding and award or order
- Interest and cost
- Lien claim procedures
- Credit, restitution, commutation
- Enforcement of awards
And now the best book on the topic is even better. St. Clair has been revised and improved by Judges Richard L. Newman and David G. Marcus and applicant’s attorney Alexander Wong. It is now available in an affordable loose leaf-and-CD edition. The set contains practical and timely discussions of troublesome topics like:
- Employer civil liability
- Fault-based defenses
- Third party suits
- Penalty claims
- Medical reporting requirements
- Medical lien claim process
- Psychiatric injuries
- Repetitive trauma
- Permanent disability evaluation
- Multiple jobs
- Off-premises injuries
- Recreational and social activities
- Stress-related ailments
- Sufficiency of medical evidence
- Computation of indemnity
- Apportionment
- Choice of physician
- Need for medical treatment
- Employer misconduct
- Unreasonable delay or refusal
- Unlawful discrimination
- Anti-fraud legislation
- Attorneys’ fees
- Preparing for trial
- Hearing procedures
- Judgments
- Reconsideration
California Workers' Compensation Law & Practice
