The claimant’s bar should return to a mind set where indemnity and medical are negotiated separately and each component should be justified with actual exposure values, and not arbitrary figures.

In this case, a phantom head trauma was compensable because there was no way to prove it did not happen at work. The claimant, a county caseworker, was in his cubicle when the co-worker in the next ...

A surge in claims and fraud case have prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom to try to change a benefits program. Opponents say it helps the state's ...