California Court of Appeal

In case involving worker's slip and fall during course of employment resulting in injuries, decision affirming an award to respondent worker is annulled as award was improperly calculated using the 1997 schedule for rating permanent disabilities that was in effect before January 1, 2005, rather than the new schedule that went into effect on that date.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/23/2007
• Published 05/23/2007

Judges

• RIVERA, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mullen & Filippi, Jerome D. Young, Esq., Karen T. Dutton, San Francisco, For Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent Workers' Compensation Appeals Board., Smith & Baltaxe, Byron T. Smith, Esq., for Respondent Jorge Chavez., Frailing, Rockwell & Kelly, David N. Rockwell, Amicus Curiae for California Applicants' Attorneys Association on behalf of Respondent.