Senate Bill 899, enacted on April 19, 2004, devastated the workers’ compensation laws of California.  In addition to vast reductions in benefits by eliminating the previous method for rating permanent disabilitities by consideration of the injured employee’s loss of ability to compete in the open labor market and substituting impairments under the AMA Guides, […]

SACRAMENTO — An elderly state worker with osteoporosis who broke her back in 2003 may get a larger disability check under a court ruling Monday that raised questions about whether there is age discrimination in the state’s workers’ compensation reforms.
The 3rd District Court of Appeal threw out a decision by the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board […]