Yesterday afternoon in Fresno I showed another attorney how I could perform an Ogilvie calculation on my cell phone using the best workers’ compensation calculator website in the world.
I don’t know. ((Photo courtesy of Santheo))
I was at the San Jose WCAB on Friday. Since recently discovering that I could run this website’s permanent disability rating calculators from my phone’s web browser, this was the first time I left my rating manual, money chart, and date wheel in the car. ((Photo courtesy of .robbie))
It was great. That morning I used my phone to:
The benefit for me is not so much that I don’t have to carry the rating manuals, dollar value charts, and date wheels. Unlike these tools, my phone is not something I’m going to misplace or loan and never see again.
The best part is that if I want to refer back to the calculation I just performed, I can just e-mail it to myself!
Thanks to our friends at AppealsBoardReporter.com, we now have access to 22 amicus briefs filed in the Ogilvie and Almaraz/Guzman cases. ((Photo courtesy of Black Glenn. Terrible pun courtesy of me.)) In late March 2009 the WCAB granted reconsideration of their recent Ogilvie and Almaraz/Guzman decisions – and invited the submission of amicus briefs. You can read and download them here:
Who produced them? Well, Ogilvie amicus briefs were filed by:
The Almaraz/Guzman briefs were filed by:
After reviewing the above list, I have to wonder: Why doesn’t CAAA have an amicus brief for Ogilvie? Does anyone know?
Sometimes even the WCAB needs more time to think. ((Photo courtesy of radiospike photography))
On March 26, 2009, the director of the Department of Industrial Relations, John C. Duncan, issued a letter to the entire Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board asking them to vacate their own decisions and solicit argument and amicus briefs. Here’s a copy, courtesy of WCExec.com, the Letter from Director of DIR to WCAB re: Ogilvie and Almaraz/Guzman (3/26/2009).
On Monday April 6, 2009 the WCAB issued three Orders Granting Reconsideration and Order Allowing Amicus Briefs (en banc) in Ogilvie and Almaraz/Guzman. For your review:
What does the Order Granting Reconsideration of Ogilvie and Almaraz/Guzman mean for you?
I was recently sent feedback about the Ogilvie DFEC rebuttal calculator on this website. ((Photo courtesy of biketrouble)) Here’s how I’ve incorporated that feedback:
There are two other issues I’m thinking about:
How would you change these calculators? What else would you like to see? What do you hate about them? Shoot me an e-mail or leave a comment!
