I've written an expert commentary article that analyzes the unpublished California Court of Appeal decision in Vaira v. Workers' Comp. App. Bd. (2007) 72 Cal. Comp. Cas. 1586, which held that any apportionment of a workers’ compensation award to age or gender, per se, is a violation of California’s anti-discrimination law as set forth in Cal. Gov. Code § 11135. Vaira is the first Court of Appeal decision that addresses the distinction between risk factors for causation of injury and causes of permanent disability.

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