California Returns Workers' Comp to "Bad Ole Days"
When the Fifth District Court of Appeal (DCA) in California refused to review the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board’s (WCAB) en banc decision in State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) v. WCAB (Almaraz) on June 16, the Schwarzenegger administration’s efforts to return sanity to the state’s workers’ compensation permanent disability system was dealt yet another — perhaps fatal — blow. While SCIF could appeal this decision to the California Supreme Court, that body’s failure last year to accept a defense petition in Joyce Guzman v. Milpitas Unified School District (Guzman), a Sixth DCA case that dealt with precisely the same legal issues as Almaraz, suggests such an effort would likely be futile.
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Source: Insurance Journal
