I have to be at the Fresno WCAB this afternoon. ((Photo thanks to Google and their StreetView)) Stop by and say hello if you’re in the area.
I’ve got a hearing at the Stockton WCAB this morning. ((Photo thanks to Google and their StreetView)) Stop by and say hello if you’re in the area.
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!
Oral argument on Smith v. WCAB (California Youth Authority) went forward on Smith out that on April 7, 2009. Today, we have the result – Smith/Amar has been unanimously reversed by the California Supreme Court in case number S150528. Download a copy and read it for yourself here:
For more background on Smith/Amar, check out my prior post discussing the oral argument.
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?
