Ron Mahurin

Utilization Review (UR) is a significant impediment to receiving medical treatment. Under the current statutes, all requests for medical treatment must be sent to UR. If the Request For Authorization (RFA) is not on the proper form, it has no standing and can be denied. Once a doctor has made a ...

Total Temporary Disability Benefits, TTD or TD, are one of the most important benefits provided within the workers compensation system because they represent wage loss. It is difficult to obtain any type of constructive medical treatment if you cannot pay your living expenses. The case law is ext...

Settling a Worker’s Compensation case when you have applied for Social Security and Medicare is complicated because the 1965 amendment to Section 224 of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §424a, introduced the offset for periodic workers’ compensation benefits paid to recipients of social securit...

A few months ago the 3rd District Court of Appeal issued a decision rejecting the W.C.A.B.’s reliance on an award by a WCJ of Permanent Total Disability based on Labor Code 4662(b)’s language of disability “…in accordance with the fact”. In doing so, the Court specifically found, in the absence o...

Law Offices of Ronald Mahurin///Northernworkerscomp.com/// A question that comes up over and over is when are Temporary Disability (TD) benefits owed. Labor Code Section 4650 states TD is owed no later than 14 days after notice of an injury. It is rare that payments start within 14 days of noti...

Law Office of Ronald Mahurin /// Northernworkerscomp.com/// The overlooked Priority Conference. Often an issue that arises in a workers compensation case is medical treatment. An injured worker cannot get necessary treatment, which would be the basis for an Expedited Hearing, (EH) because the cl...

Law Office of Ronald Mahurin/// Northernworkerscomp.com///The Department of Industrial Relations workers compensation website provides a form for filing a claim called a DWC-1. Under current law, once an employer learns of a work injury, from any source, it is required to provide a DWC-1. If the...

Northernworkerscomp.com/// Law Office of Ronald Mahurin /// Is your claim accepted - or NOT? Often a carrier will accept a claim, then not provide benefits, or deny the claim and not provide benefits. What to do when a claim is accepted and no benefits are forthcoming depends upon circumstance,...

Northernworkerscomp.com ///Law Office of Ronald Mahurin///Labor Code section 132a makes it a misdemeanor for an employer to discriminate in any way, including discharge or threat of discharge, against an employee who has filed or is thinking about filing a workers' compensation claim. If the cour...