Workers compensation benefits: $120 Million Return to Work Fund

By Charles Cleveland | June 23, 2015

Workers compensation benefits: $120 Million Return to Work Fund We are all aware of the devastating effect that SB 863 has had on workers’ compensation benefits, especially with respect to injured workers’ access to medical treatment.  One of the few concessions for injured workers that came out of SB 863 was the implementation of Labor…

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Yelp Reviews Cleveland & Metz

By Charles Cleveland | February 17, 2014

Yelp Reviews Cleveland & Metz Work injury Lawyers and Accident Attorneys For those of you that found us on the Yelp listing for our business listing at the Law Offices of Cleveland & Metz, we have numerous positive reviews on Yelp but they always are fluctuating into a recommended and not recommended status on a constant…

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Workers Compensation Reform 2012 Part IV: Vocational Rehabilitation

By Charles Cleveland | December 3, 2012

Workers Compensation Reform 2012 Part IV: Vocational Rehabilitation. Prior to 2005, California injured workers had an excellent program of workers compensation vocational rehabilitation benefits. It included a budget for schooling, equipment, payments while you went to school, and adequate compensation for a competent counselor. In the workers compensation reform of 2004 in Senate Bill 899,…

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