Buzzell Law Group Blog

Consider how California’s policies, laws and institutions have perverted Workers’ Compensation into an ageist system where the insurers collect more and pay out less the longer an employee has been on the job.

In case you missed it, the California Superior Court made a ruling earlier this month in one of the most important cases CAAA has been engaged in for some time- Castellanos v. State of California, better known to the rest of the state as the gig-worker case.

Let’s talk about essential workers during the start of the pandemic.

You can’t read it. You can’t speak it. California uses YOUR labor and taxes YOUR income. But, when a worker gets injured, California’s Workers’ Compensation system still doesn’t translate what you need into the language you speak…

The battle around Assembly Bill 1465 is heating up with many insurance and employer groups waging a full-blown scare tactic assault to prevent the establishment of a statewide MPN.

Working from home is a situation that has become quite common in the last year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many workers were sent home to work remotely. Some of them have already returned to their workplaces. However, there are still many others who today continue to perform their duties from home.

We’ve railed against the higher financial costs brought on by delays in medical care as evidenced in a report published late last year, but make no mistake – the highest costs are being paid by the injured workers who end up with a permanent disability because their medical care was delayed.

The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB) has released its study on the cost impacts of delayed medical care due to COVID-19…