California Workers’ Compensation: The Saga Continues– Election and Arbitration

By Jeffrey Birren   California’s workers’ compensation laws are among the most generous in the nation. The California Legislature created a system to protect employees and their counsel. Thus, the workers’ compensation statute at Labor Code § 3200 (“Cal. Lab.”) states that:   “This division and Division 5 (commencing at Section 6300) shall be liberally construed by the courts with the purpose of extending their benefits for the protection of persons injured in the course o