(California Court of Appeal) – Affirmed. Defendant, a chiropractor, was convicted of charges stemming from a scheme to defraud workers’ compensation insurance carriers. On appeal, Defendant claimed several errors at trial including a sentencing error. The appeals court found no abuse of discretion or prejudicial…
(California Court of Appeal) – Affirmed the denial of a motion to compel arbitration of an insurance dispute. A company that sued its workers’ compensation insurer over premium hikes contended that the case did not have to be arbitrated because the California Insurance Code invalidated…
(California Court of Appeal) – In a worker’s comp case in which employer received notification of the injury the day after it happened by a workers compensation claim was not submitted to insurer until more than seven years later, the order excluding laches as an…
(California Court of Appeal) – In an insurer’s action seeking seeks to set aside the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) finding that a worker sustained a psychiatric injury resulting from a sudden and extraordinary employment condition within the meaning of Labor Code…
(California Court of Appeal) – In an action challenging the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board denial of a Legislatively-created insurance guarantee’s motion to be dismissed from the underlying workers’ compensation cases on the ground that it was authorized to pay only covered claims from which the…
