RIO LINDA UNION SCHOOL DIST. v. WCAB

No. C048298.

31 Cal.Rptr.3d 789 (2005)

131 Cal.App.4th 517

RIO LINDA UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT, Petitioner, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD, Janelle Scheftner, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

July 26, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mullen & Filippi, Barbara L. Turner and Richard J. Berryhill, San Jose, for Petitioner.

Hanna, Brophy, MacLean, McAleer & Jensen, Richard Brophy and Gerald M. Kennedy, Sacramento, for California Workers' Compensation Defense Attorneys' Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Finnegan, Marks, Hampton & Theofel, Michael A. Marks, San Francisco, for California Workers' Compensation Institute as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.

Law Office of Iris S. Newton, Iris S. Newton, Sacramento; Rucka, O'Boyle, Lombardo & McKenna, Cosimo Aiello, Salinas, for Respondent Janelle Scheftner.

Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, James C. Harrison, Margaret R. Prinzing, Karen Getman for California Applicants' Attorneys Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondent Janelle Scheftner.


CANTIL-SAKAUYE, J.

On April 19, 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law Senate Bill No. 899 (2003-2004 Reg. Sess.), a package of reforms to the workers' compensation laws.1 (Stats.2004, ch. 34.) (SB 899.) The legislation took effect immediately as urgency legislation. (Stats.2004, ch. 34, § 49.) SB 899 changed, among other things, the law with regard to apportionment of permanent...

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