August 7, 2018

An employer in California is required to carry workers’ compensation insurance if it has one or more employees. The general rule in the context of eligibility for workers’ compensation benefits is that if an employee is injured in the course and scope of his or her employment by an anticipated and foreseeable risk of that […]

Working on any construction site is dangerous. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 5,190 workers died on job sites in 2016. That comes out to more than 14 work-related fatalities every day. More than 21 percent of those fatalities were in the construction industry. About 200,000 other construction workers were injured in that

When a person has suffered an on the job injury and total disability, that period of disability might be either temporary or permanent. Pursuant to California workers’ compensation laws, temporary total disability (TTD) benefits are paid to workers who are injured on the job and unable to work until their injuries have healed. A person