Legal Opinion
Crawford v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 13, 1989No. B036621PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SPENCER, P. J.
Introduction
Petitioner Byron Daniel Crawford, M.D., seeks a writ of prohibition, or in the alternative a writ of mandate, to restrain further contempt proceedings against him by respondent Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB).
Background
Dr. Crawford is a psychiatric expert witness specializing in stress-related and other mental disorders. Through an alter ego corporation, he has been providing medical evaluation reports submitted in workers’ compensation cases since 1978. The corporation employs pproximately 30 persons to take medical histories and write the medical…
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