Workers' Compensation

Attorneys

Mastagni, Holstedt, Amick, Miller, Johnsen & Uhrhammer has been a leader in workers' compensation litigation for 30 years. Our Workers' Compensation Department represents injured workers from all walks of life throughout California, with an emphasis on law enforcement occupations. Our workers' compensation attorneys and staff are essential to the firm's unique ability to provide a coordinated resolution of safety employees' many entitlements in injury cases with the integration of civil settlements, compensation for on the job injury, and retirement benefits arising from the same injury.

Since the 1970s, Mastagni, Holstedt, Amick, Miller, Johnsen & Uhrhammer has been at the forefront of trial and appellate litigation defining workers' compensation laws in California. In cases such as Sanchez v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (1990) 217 Cal.App.3d 346 (vocational rehabilitation), CJS Co. v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (1999) 74 Cal.App.4th 294 (post-resignation benefits), and Jackson v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (2005) 133 Cal.App.4th 965 (heart trouble presumption), Mastagni, Holstedt, Amick, Miller, Johnsen & Uhrhammer time and again has been responsible for enforcing the rights of injured public employees and other injured workers in California.

With recent changes in workers' compensation benefits imposed by the State of California, Mastagni, Holstedt, Amick, Miller, Johnsen & Uhrhammer has continued to be on the leading edge of workers' compensation litigation with new approaches to independent medical evaluation and coordinated case management. Our attorneys and staff work together to provide exemplary and timely assistance to injured workers from the onset of a case through litigation and appeal.

The Workers' Compensation Department represents injured workers throughout California in many different venues. We have the attorneys and staff necessary to ensure the best representation in all locales. The firm is proud to have trained and fostered during their employment at the firm several attorneys who are now workers' compensation judges all over California.

John R. Holstedt, Managing Partner (Workers' Compensation)

Making a false or fraudulent Workers' Compensation claim is a felony subject to up to five years in prison, or a fine of up to $50,000, or double the value of the fraud, whichever is greater, or by both imprisonment and fine.