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An Overview of Connecticut Workers' Compensation
A General Overview of Maryland Workers' Compensation
The Dangers of Untimely Filings – What Employers Need to Know
The WCAB has issued a rare en banc decision providing guidance on the applicant’s burden of proof in rebutting the use of the “Combined Values Chart” (CVC) when combining impairments pursuant to the Kite decision. The WCAB...more
The WCAB offered clarity on the complex topic of “vocational apportionment” in an en banc decision issued on June 22, 2023: Grace Nunes v. State of California, Dept. of Motor Vehicles, legally uninsured; State Compensation...more
Further Restrictions on Vocational Apportionment - As most workers’ compensation practitioners can attest, vocational evidence has seen a resurgence in recent years, as the applicant’s bar attempts to obtain Awards of 100%...more
The WCAB must ground its decisions in substantial evidence. We practitioners must review medical-legal reports and any doctor’s depositions to ensure the medical record, when read as a whole, constitutes substantial evidence....more