Description
This renowned work features more than 6,000 case discussions and valuable advice from a leading authority in California workers’ compensation law.
Since 1980, the late Judge 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 1,400 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
REVISION 20 HIGHLIGHTS
This edition keeps you up-to-date with the latest rules, hundreds of new cases, and new text in 22 chapters covering these and many other topics:
•Revised regulations related to medical-legal evaluations effective 2/2/23. §1:54
• Retained control theory of liability for property owners and hirers. §2:92
• Statutorily excluded employees: reality show participants. §3:105
• General and special employment: union worker. §3:55
• Professional employment organizations (PEO). §3:56
• Anti-attribution clause application to apportionment of permanent disability. §4:63
• MDT (or CVC) is sometimes not required. §8:73
• Resubmission to UR and the 12-month rule. §9:61.2
• WCJ’s jurisdiction where UR finds request is non-medical and not subject to UR. §9:64
• Reimbursement for interpreters for medical-legal purposes. §10:207
• Attorneys’ fee overpayments. §17:28
• Knowledge of cumulative trauma date of injury: prior claims. §18:54
• Non-IBR medical dispute petition. §18:66
• Non-compliance with benefit-notice rules and the statute of limitations. §18:82
• Reserving jurisdiction: insidious disease process” cases. §18:130
• Employer’s right to conduct independent discovery. §20:26
• Disqualification for cause; procedures and examples. §21:93
• Examples: no good cause found to withdraw from stipulations. §21:194
• Examples: res judicata not found. §22:07
• Overpayment of TD and PD. §22:193
• Plus updated forms, table of authorities, and table of cases.
AND MORE!
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