California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that the 2022 minimum and maximum temporary total disability rates will increase on Jan. 1, 2022. The minimum TTD rate will increase from $203.44 to $230.95 and the maximum TTD rate will increase from…
Recent litigation and proposed legislation in some eastern states may have opened the door to more widespread use of cannabis to treat injured workers, experts say. Cases heard in courts in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey and New Hampshire…
Sacramento has paid $11 million to settle a lawsuit after a car hit a boy and killed his grandmother in 2018, one of the city’s largest such payouts. QuiChang Zhu, 72, and her grandson Jian Hao Kuang, 6, were using…
A law that goes into effect next year that will greatly expand the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s ability to impose fines for pandemic-related offenses is a wake-up call for businesses with multiple locations, legal experts say. There…
Based on claims data from years before the PTSD presumption created by Senate Bill 542 took effect in 2020 in California, policy think tank Rand Corp. found that first responders filed more claims for the condition and that those claims…
A lawsuit pending in a California appeals court threatens to upend a more than century-old workers compensation provision that legal experts say could subject employers to potentially unlimited tort liability and trigger an avalanche of litigation. In the case of…
(Reuters) — Bayer AG won its first trial over claims its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer after a California jury found that the herbicide was not a substantial cause of a child’s rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the company said Tuesday….