Category Archives: Good-Faith Personnel Action

Good-Faith Personnel Action, Labor Code Section 3208.3, Workers' Compensation, Yrulegui & Roberts

WCAB Orders Reconsideration in COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Case

Posted on by Joseph Yrulegui

In a recent decision, the California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) granted a Petition for Reconsideration in Cisneros v. Los Angeles Unified School District, a case involving a healthcare assistant’s psychiatric injury claim following the enforcement of a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. Within this blog post, our Fresno workers’ compensation defense lawyer discusses the allegations […]

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Good-Faith Personnel Action, Workers' Compensation

GOOD-FAITH PERSONNEL ACTION: APPLYING THE DEFENSE TO AN APPLICANT’S PSYCHIATRIC INJURY CLAIM

Posted on by Shamyl Siddiqi

Can an employee receive compensation for a psychiatric claim if the injury resulted from the termination of his employment? What if the psychiatric injury was due to another form of discipline? Courts struggled with this issue prior to the enactment of Labor Code Section 3208.3. Some decisions found that such injuries were related to the […]

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