In a petition for review of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board’s order requiring petitioner to pay vocational rehabilitation benefits to respondent, the petition is granted where the Board’s decision was not a final determination of respondent’s right to vocational rehabilitation benefits and because Cal. Lab. Code section 139.5 had been repealed.

Read Beverly Hilton Hotel v. Wkrs.’ Comp. Appeals Bd., No. B212205

Appellate Information

Filed August 26, 2009

Judges

Opinion by Judge Mosk

Counsel

For Petitioner:

Houman Hamidzadeh, Wai & Connor, Los Angeles, CA

For Respondent:

Neil P. Sullivan

Vincent Bausano

You Don’t Have To Solve This on Your Own – Get a Lawyer’s Help

Civil Rights

Block on Trump’s Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court

Criminal

Judges Can Release Secret Grand Jury Records

Politicians Can’t Block Voters on Facebook, Court Rules