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 14 HIGHLIGHTS
This edition keeps you up-to- date in this ever changing area with hundreds of new cases, 26 new or updated forms, new text in every chapter, and new Chapter 10 Liens and Medical-Legal Cost Petitions. Recent developments include:
Introduction (Chapter 1)
- 2017 reforms summarized: SB 1160, SB 1175, AB 1244, AB 2882. §1:54
Jurisdiction (Chapter 2)
- Civil suit against employer for emotional distress caused by mock robbery. §2:122
- Genetic discrimination. §2:204
Injury (Chapter 4
- The 90 day presumption. §4:19
- Cancer presumption in peace officer cases. §4:61
Course of Employment (Chapter 5)
- Employer van pools. § 5:73
- Injury to medical doctor at CME class. §5:113
Arising Out of Employment (Chapter 6)
- Elements of logical inference to be used by judicial officers. § 6:24
- Industrial stress, psychiatric injury, and good faith personnel actions. §6:71
Temporary Disability (Chapter 7)
- Special compensation rates for law enforcement and firefighting personnel: res judicata effect of prior finding on an issue of temporary disability on right to recover annual leave. §7:75
Medical Benefits (Chapter 9)
- Written authorization from adjuster required for care by MPN physician. §9:58
- Use of second opinion reports. §9:58
- Utilization review after 1/1/18. §9:61.1
Penalties (Chapter 12)
- Failure to pay advance disability pension payments. §12:116
- Failure to provide supplemental job displacement voucher. §12:117
And More!
