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Attempting to prevail on a jurisdictional challenge is never easy and is especially difficult when the employer raising the defense is a CA club. The fact a trial judge issued a take nothing finding in favor of the San Francisco Giants based on the jurisdictional defense raised... Read More →

The Applicant in this matter was a warehouse employee at a large retailer who claimed a cumulative trauma injury to her bilateral lower extremities as a result of her work at the Employer. The claim was initially accepted as the Applicant did have medical evidence supporting... Read More →

The WCAB issued a favorable decision in favor of an out-of-state employer under the AB-1309 amendments to Labor Code Section 3600.5. While the WCAB stopped short of finding the entire CT claim barred per Labor Code Section 3600.5(d), the WCAB found the Philadelphia Phillies... Read More →

After two days of Trial, the WCJ found the out-of-state Applicant did not meet his burden of proof on two key jurisdictional contentions: 1) That the Applicant’s sports agent had authority to bind the Applicant to a player contract; and 2) that the Applicant signed his player... Read More →

Mr. Collins prevailed at trial by proving that a Choice of Forum clause contained in a different team’s contract should be enforced against the Applicant even though he was traded to the St. Louis Rams and played multiple games in the State with the Rams. The Trial Judge issued a... Read More →

Mr. Collins prevailed on a long running case in which he was able to defeat a claim by a professional football player that he had formed his contract in this state through the use of a California based Sports Agent. The WCAB, in its third separate opinion on Reconsideration,... Read More →

Applicant filed his claim over 35 years after retiring from the NFL in 1976. In the Application for Adjudication, CIGA was named as a party-defendant to represent the interests of Mission Insurance Company on behalf of the Atlanta Falcons. CIGA subsequently denied liability, and... Read More →

The firm has prevailed on an important case for the professional sport franchises in Florida. Using Florida’s new law, FS section 440.094, the California WCAB declined to exercise jurisdiction over the Jacksonville Jaguars in the case of Torry Holt v. Jacksonville Jaguars. Torry... Read More →

The firm has successfully litigated a case at trial raising CA Labor Code section 3600.5(b) as a defense to bar the claim based on a lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The firm represented the International Basketball League in a CT claim filed by a former professional... Read More →

Great Divide Insurance Company, represented by Ray Correio of Pearlman, Borska and Wax, won an important decision on Reconsideration. The case of Junior B. Ioane vs the Oakland Raiders (click on the attached link for the entire case) held that the use of a California based Agent... Read More →