Workers’ Compensation

With more than $450 billion in revenue, Walmart is the world’s biggest business. There are five Walmart stores in and around Sacramento, and it’s safe to say that about 1,000 people are employed at those stores at any given time. Many of their jobs are physically demanding. Walmart is Self-Insured California requires all employers with […]

With more than 55,000 employees, Sutter Health is one of the largest health care networks in California, especially in and around Sacramento. Those employees range from physicians and surgeons to administrators, office personnel, therapists, nurses and health care aides and other support personnel. Statistically, working in a hospital is one of the most dangerous jobs

Safeway workers face risks every day when they go to work. Most of them are unable to afford to be off of work if they’re seriously injured on the job. That’s why workers’ compensation insurance coverage is required of every California employer. Along with other damages, it contemplates an injured employee’s medical bills and lost

Based in Oakland, and with nearly 175,000 employees, Kaiser Permanente is one of the largest health care providers in the United States, especially in California.  Health care workers have one of the highest rates of work-related injuries in the United States. Not only do their accidents include head, neck back and neck injuries but they

There are thousands of temporary workers in the Sacramento area that are hired through staffing agencies. They might be employed in labor, warehousing, manufacturing and technology. In and around Sacramento, two large companies who use temp workers are Apple and Tesla. If you’re a temporary employee who has been hurt on the job, you’re likely

California has now enacted a presumption to its workers’ compensation laws to the effect that an employee’s COVID-19 illness or death is a compensable occupational illness or disease that can arise in the course and scope of an employee’s job. Governor Newsome signed SB 1159 into law on September 17, 2020. The presumption is rebuttable

It is August 2020 and some of the busiest harvesting weeks of the year are upon the Central Valley, but the smoke from the wildfires around California farmland can be seen as far away as Kansas. Couple that smoke with an intense heatwave, and conditions are extremely difficult for thousands of California farmworkers. Poor Air

Any California employer with one or more employees is required to carry workers’ compensation insurance coverage. An employee becomes eligible for workers’ compensation benefits when he or she is injured in the course of their employment by an anticipated and foreseeable rise of that employment. Those rules don’t just cover injuries either. They also contemplate

When a worker is injured in California in a job-related accident, the employer’s worker’s compensation insurance (WCI) will pay out certain benefits. Many people wonder of those are taxable. Are any WC Benefits Taxable? In almost all cases, the answer is no. Both state and federal policies typically do not injury-related payments such as a

In certain circumstances, benefits to an injured worker in California can be backdated or made retroactive. There are two common circumstances where WC benefits are backdated. 14-Day Rule If the injury lasts more than 14 days, or the worker is hospitalized, the employee will receive back payment for the three-day waiting period for missed wages.