California Workers' Compensation Law and Practice

As workers' compensation practice grows more challenging, helpful tools are more important than ever. Since 1980, California Workers' Compensation Law & Practice has been the "go to" resource when tough questions arise.

California Workers' Compensation Law & Practice provides start-to-finish guidance on readying and trying your case. The text in this two-volume work is supported by advice from the bench, 63 forms, and more than 6,000 case discussions.

You receive detailed explanations of procedures, practice-proven strategies for circumventing traps and maximizing opportunities, solutions to common problems, and governing law for:

Determination of medical issues

•   Required notices
•   Formal medical evaluation procedures
•   Reports of medical evaluations
•   Recovery of medical-legal costs
•   Filing or serving reports
•   Medical records
•   Pre-trial discovery

Trial

•   Setting for trial
•   Expedited hearings
•   Mandatory settlement conference
•   Notices
•   Disqualification of WCJs
•   Arbitration process
•   NIT procedures

Judgments

•   Finding and award or order
•   Interest and cost
•   Lien claim procedures
•   Credit, restitution, commutation
•   Enforcement of awards