California WCABLaw firm
Law Offices of Noel Hibbard
Law Offices of Noel Hibbard is named in 6 released California WCAB decisions from 2022–2025. The disputes run to AOE/COE (1), Discrimination under Labor Code §132a (1) and QME/AME process (1). They were heard most often at San Jose, then Salinas. The firm it meets most often is Bava & Associates (1).
- Decisions
- 6
- Years
- 2022–2025
- Issues disputed
- 5
- District offices
- 2
Applicant sideRead off how the firm is printed in the service list of its own decisions — 6 of 6 agree. It is our reading of the record, not the firm’s description of itself.
What they litigate
Disputed issues across the decisions this firm is named in. Every row opens the decisions it counts.
2 more firms appear in the same decisions and are not listed: we could not read which side they were on.
Where they appear
How the appealed decisions came out
These are decisions that were appealed and published — the tail of a system that mostly settles. Most claims end in a compromise and release or a stipulation and never reach a panel, so nothing below describes how this firm does its work. It describes how a set of appealed disputes came out.
Counted over 5 appealed decisions. Not this firm’s book of work.
Decisions
Newest decisions this firm is named in, each with the passage the panel turned on and a link to the official PDF.
- ADJ14926383 · 2025-12-19 · San Jose District OfficeAOE/COEapplicant prevailed
Determinative passage · p.1Defendant seeks reconsideration of the Findings and Award (F&A) issued on October 6, 2025 wherein the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) held, in relevant part, that while employed by defendant as a janitor on July 24, 2020, applicant sustained injury arising out of and in the course of employment (AOE/COE) to the lumbar spine and right shoulder resulting in a 78% permanent disability, plus a life pension thereafter, per the opinions of Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME), Nathan Morello, D.C.
The WCJ and WCAB found substantial medical evidence from Dr. Morello supporting injury AOE/COE to the lumbar spine and right shoulder.
Official decision · page 1 → - ADJ14533246 · 2022-04-11 · San Jose District OfficeQME/AME processdefendant prevailed
Determinative passage · p.1Applicant seeks removal or in the alternative reconsideration of the Findings and Order (F&O) issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) on January 21, 2022. By the F&O, the WCJ found that applicant's objection to the report of the qualified medical evaluator (QME) was defective. The WCJ issued an order denying applicant's request for a replacement panel.
The WCJ found the objection to the QME report was defective because the replacement panel request was made after receipt of the report, not before. The Appeals Board panel denied reconsideration, deferring to the WCJ's discretion to prevent 'doctor shopping'.
Official decision · page 1 → - ADJ10795767 · 2022-06-30 · San Jose District OfficeReconsideration / removaldefendant prevailed
Determinative passage · p.2Here, the WCJ's decision includes a finding regarding a threshold issue. Accordingly, the WCJ's decision is a final order subject to reconsideration rather than removal.
The WCJ's decision included a threshold issue, making it a final order subject to reconsideration, but the petitioner only challenged an interlocutory finding. The Board applied the removal standard and found no significant prejudice or irreparable harm, nor that reconsideration would be inadequate.
Official decision · page 2 →
Also recorded as
The same firm is printed several ways across the decisions, and all of them were counted as one. This is every spelling behind the figures above.
- LAW OFFICES OF NOEL HIBBARD
- Law Offices of Noel Hibbard
- LAW OFFICE OF NOEL HIBBARD
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