| ABR Self Assessment Tests |
Appeals Board Reporter is pleased to announce that it has been approved as a Mandatory Continuing Legal Education provider by the State Bar of California.
Each edition of the Appeals Board Reporter will have a Self-Assessment Test. One hour MCLE credit can be earned by reading the edition and completing the test of about 20 true-or-false questions.
Current MCLE provisions permit a member of the bar to use such Self-Assessment Tests to fulfill up to half of the bi-annual MCLE requirements. There is an administrative charge of $25.00 per test.
Simply download a test, complete the answer sheet and return a printout together with the administrative fee to:
Providence Publications
P.O. Box 2610,
Granite Bay, CA 95746
You will receive the corrected test, answer sheet with explanations relating to the answers and an MCLE certificate.
Select an assessment test by date:
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2009Appeals Board Reporter February 6, 2009 11,056 1. The insurance carrier on a subsequent period of continuous trauma employment ending in March 2004 is not liable for vocational rehabilitation? ❑ True ❑ False 2. The employers failure to provide the required notices to an employee of his
MCLE Self Test, May 12, 2006
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2006 Appeals Board Reporter April 14, 2006 10,120 1. An injured worker is not an employee of a homeowner unless, within 90 days of the injury, worked 52 hours and earned more than $100.00? ❑ True ❑ False 2. An employee of a contractor may sue the hirer of the contractor when the person who
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2006 Appeals Board Reporter March 31, 2006 10,0104 1. The parties by stipulation may confer jurisdiction on the Appeals Board to make an increased award of indemnity for a period of disability more than five years after the date of injury, where the applicants injury is orthopedic and stem
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2006 Appeals Board Reporter March 17, 2006 10,088 1. A petition for reconsideration is deemed denied if the Appeals Board fails to act within 60 days of the date of filing of the petition for reconsideration. ❑ True ❑ False 2. Reopening of a decision for good cause under Labor Code section
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2006 Appeals Board Reporter March 3, 2006 10,072 1. The medical evaluation and reporting procedure of former Labor Code 4062, repealed by SB 899, applies where the employee is represented and the date of the industrial injury is prior to January 1, 2005? ❑ True ❑ False 2. Reconsideration w
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2006 Appeals Board Reporter February 10, 2006 10,056 1. If an injured worker is determined to be a Qualified Injured Worker, vocational rehabilitatiio maintenance allowance should begin from the date of the request for vocational rehabilitatiio services, even if there is no prima facie evi
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2006 Appeals Board Reporter January 27, 2006 10,040 1. Medical evidence is required when determining whether a lawful, nondiscriminattor good faith personnel action is the substantial cause of a psychiatric injury? ❑ True ❑ False 2. An injured police officer may receive vocational rehabili
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2006 Appeals Board Reporter January 13, 2006 10,024 1. An expert medical opinion does not constitute substantial evidence if based on incorrect facts or legal theory or on surmise or conjecture. (See Chu v. Workers Comp. Appeals Bd. (1996) 49 Cal.App.4th 1176.) ❑ True ❑ False 2. The Fifth
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter December 9, 2005 10,368 1. Permanent and stationary is a status in which the injured worker had made a full recovery from his injury as much as he is likely to make. ❑ True ❑ False 2. Within five years from the date of injury, an order of the Appeals Board appro
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter November 18, 2005 10,352 1. The heart trouble presumption is a presumption affecting the burden of proof and is rebuttable. ❑ True ❑ False 2. In rebutting the heart trouble presumptiio for correctional officers, it is the employers burden to show that any nonwor
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter November 4, 2005 10,336 1. A defendant is not liable for a penalty if payment of the delayed amount plus a selfimppose penalty of 10% is paid within 90 days of the discovery that the amount was not paid. ❑ True ❑ False 2. Sanctions may not be imposed if an attor
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter SELF ASSESSMENT TEST CERTIFICATION • This self-study activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of one hour. • The State Bar of California certified that theis activity conforms to the st
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter SELF ASSESSMENT TEST CERTIFICATION • This self-study activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of one hour. • The State Bar of California certified that theis activity conforms to the st
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter SELF ASSESSMENT TEST CERTIFICATION • This self-study activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of one hour. • The State Bar of California certified that theis activity conforms to the st
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter SELF ASSESSMENT TEST CERTIFICATION • This self-study activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of one hour. • The State Bar of California certified that theis activity conforms to the st
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter SELF ASSESSMENT TEST CERTIFICATION • This self-study activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of one hour. • The State Bar of California certified that theis activity conforms to the st
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter SELF ASSESSMENT TEST CERTIFICATION • This self-study activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of one hour. • The State Bar of California certified that theis activity conforms to the st
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter July 15, 2005 SELF ASSESSMENT TEST 1. Penalties for prosecuting frivolous appeals may be imposed without giving fair warning, affording the attorney an opportuniit to respond to the charges and holding a hearing. ❑ True ❑ False 2. The Workers Compensation Appeal
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter June 24, 2005 SELF ASSESSMENT TEST 1. A personnel action is conduct either by or attributable to management including such things as done by one who has authority to review, criticize, demote, or discipline an employee. It is not necessary for the personnel acti
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter June 10, 2005 SELF ASSESSMENT TEST 1. An injured workers opinion as to his physical ability to return to work to perform his regular work duties constitutes substantial evidence the employee is no longer temporarril disabled. ❑ True ❑ False 2. There is no statut
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter May 20, 2005 SELF ASSESSMENT TEST 1. An employer and its insurer are estopped to plead the statute of limitations when the actions or misrepresentations of either induce the employee to refrain from filing a claim until after the statute of limitations has run.
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter May 6, 2005 SELF ASSESSMENT TEST 1. California Insurance Guarantee Association is not responsible for reimbursing solvent insurers, where the solvent insurer paid workers compensation benefits due to injuries sustained during periods of coverage by the insolvent
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter April 22, 2005 SELF ASSESSMENT TEST 1. Once an employer discovers an employee is undocumented, the employer is precluded by law from offering any work solely because of immigration status. ❑ True ❑ False 2. To constitute a waiver there must be an existing right,
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter April 8, 2005 SELF ASSESSMENT TEST 1. Jurisdiction over the illegally uninsured employer and the Fund is attained if the employer makes a general appearance or is served with the properly completed applicatiio and special notice of lawsuit in the manner provided
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter March 18, 2005 SELF ASSESSMENT TEST 1. The general duty to develop the record when the medical evidence is not complete prevails over the specific discovery closure provision of Labor Code 5503(e)(3). ❑ True ❑ False 2. Evidence is admissible after the close of d
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter March 4, 2005 SELF ASSESSMENT TEST 1. Injuries sustained in a fall at work caused by an non-industrial idiopathic seizure are not compensable. ❑ True ❑ False 2. SB 899 amendments to Labor Code 4663 and 4664, which concern apportionmeen of permanent disability, h
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter February 18, 2005 SELF ASSESSMENT TEST 1. The “cancer presumption” pertaining to certain peace officers and firefighters is disputable presumption that can be rebutted by the employer by showing by a preponderannc of evidence: (1) the primary site of the cancer
www.appealsboardreporter.com 2005 Appeals Board Reporter February 4, 2005 SELF ASSESSMENT TEST 1. An insurance carriers duty to defend the insured arises from the existence of a potential for coverage, and ceases upon the absence of such potential. ❑ True ❑ False 2. The Appeals Boards failure to sufficieentl state the
