at EDD.CA.Gov you will be asked in the Unemployment Insurance application questions "are you disabled?" If you check 'yes', the Unemployment...

What you do now depends entirely on what the doctor wrote. If the doctor wrote a permanent restriction against lifting more than 25 lbs you're...

Is your pre-injury job still open? Is this employer advertising to fill your pre-injury post just now? IF SO, I've used that fact pattern to...

I'd probably move the strike the QME reports. To answer your question directly, if you enter into a Compromise & RElease Agreement (a sort of...

NO DOCTOR NEEDS TO SEE YOU EVERY WEEK!!! You really need to get away from that group. I'll bet you are not seeing actual licensed M.D....

Labor Code 132a makes discriminating against an Injured Worker a misdemeanor crime. BUT it's very tough to prove. If you have proof that the ONLY...

"I currently have a lawyer" = SIT DOWN WITH YOUR LAWYER!!! She's getting thou$and$ of your money!! She owes you answers about treatment! You...

This is an URBAN LEGEND that we can't shut down. 99% of workers believe if a doctor writes you should be off work, the employer magically has to...

The bad news is your boss is a schmuck; Just because you were injured performing a task outside a job description does not mean you didn't sustain...

Your 'shorthand' makes this unintelligible, but it is always smarter to have FEWER dates of injury. 20% Whole Person Impairment on one arm claim...