CaliforniaDoctrines
California WCAB doctrines.
Nine holdings attorneys look up by name: Escobedo, Almaraz/Guzman, Kite, Benson, Ogilvie, Nunes, Dubon, Brodie, LeBoeuf. Each page is later panels applying that holding — the passage, the page, the official PDF. Leading cases themselves are usually before this corpus (2021–).
- Doctrine pages
- 9
- Released applications
- 692
- ApportionmentEscobedo — how-and-why apportionment386decisions →
An apportionment opinion has to explain how and why, in reasonable medical probability. Later panels applying Escobedo, quoted.
- Permanent disabilityAlmaraz/Guzman — rebutting the strict Guides68decisions →
When a strict AMA Guides rating does not fairly describe the impairment. Panels applying Almaraz and Guzman, quoted.
- Permanent disabilityKite — combining impairments43decisions →
Whether two impairments should be added rather than combined with the Combined Values Chart. Panels applying Kite, quoted.
- Permanent disabilityBenson — separate injuries, separate ratings35decisions →
Successive injuries are rated separately unless they cannot be disentangled. Panels applying Benson, quoted.
- Permanent disabilityOgilvie — rebutting the DFEC / earnings adjustment33decisions →
Rebutting the scheduled earnings adjustment with individualized diminished future earning capacity. Panels applying Ogilvie, quoted.
- Permanent disabilityNunes — vocational expert opinions after 201340decisions →
What a vocational expert still has to show after Labor Code section 4660.1. Panels applying Nunes I and II, quoted.
- TreatmentDubon — when UR is so defective the Board may decide treatment37decisions →
A utilization-review decision that is untimely or incomplete may leave medical necessity with the Appeals Board. Panels applying Dubon II, quoted.
- ApportionmentBrodie — overlapping PD and the 2004 apportionment amendments25decisions →
How overlapping permanent disability is treated after Senate Bill 899. Panels applying Brodie, quoted.
- Permanent disabilityLeBoeuf — inability to compete in the open labor market25decisions →
Total disability from an inability to compete in the open labor market, proved with vocational evidence. Panels applying LeBoeuf, quoted.
About these doctrine pages
Which California workers’ compensation doctrines are here?
Nine holdings attorneys look up by name: Escobedo, Almaraz/Guzman, Kite, Benson, Ogilvie, Nunes, Dubon, Brodie, and LeBoeuf. Not a URL per citation spelling in the extraction.
Are the leading cases themselves in this corpus?
Usually not. The corpus of panel PDFs starts in 2021. Each doctrine page quotes later panels applying the holding. The leading citation is printed the way courts cite it; our cards stay ADJ, date, and issue.
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