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Workers’ compensation is a system set up by the State of California to compensate workers when they have been hurt on the job. If you are injured while working or become ill because of your employment, your employer is required by law to pay workers’ compensation benefits to you. There are two types of injuries that can occur in the work environment. The first type of injury is a specific injury. This may occur when the employee is engaged in either apprehension and detention..., or physical methods of arrest, or involved in fire suppression activity, and lifting, pushing and pulling. A specific injury is an event that occurs at a particular time and place. It could be akin to lifting an item and your back is injured. The next type of injury is a cumulative trauma or continuous injury which evolves over a period of time. It is not necessarily one event, but a combination of many exposures throughout the career. This is similar to bending a paperclip, you bend it and bend it and eventually it breaks. It is not one bend but a combination of bends. Repeated exposures at work such as damage to your hearing from continuous loud exposure, hurting your hands, back, neck from doing the same or similar motions over a period of time, exposure to toxic or carcinogen chemicals, or exposures to stress-related events at work. Workers’ Compensation may cover some stress-related injuries caused or made worse by one job (heart, high blood pressure, psychology). Presumptions California provides a rebuttable presumption for many safety officers and the presumption is that if they develop a medical problem to a particular system or body part, it can be presumed to be work related. It should be noted that this is a rebuttable presumption and if the proper foundation is not developed, the employer can successfully deny any and all benefits. The presumption may have application for heart trouble, back trouble, hernia, pneumonia, meningitis, blood-borne pathogens, tuberculosis and cancer. Again, the key on the presumptive cases is to have an adequate foundation that articulates exposures.

AMBER ALERT empowers law enforcement, the media and the public to combat abduction by sending out immediate, up-to-date information that aids in the child's safe recovery. Using radio, television, the internet, highway information signs, and even cell phone networks, AMBER ALERT gives the public the information needed to locate abducted children. The AMBER ALERT Program has helped in successfully recovering over one hundred children since it was established statewide in Calif...ornia on July 31, 2002. AMBER ALERT Guidelines AMBER ALERT may be activated only by law enforcement agencies. AMBER ALERT is intended only for the most serious, time-critical child abduction cases. AMBER ALERT is not intended for cases involving runaways or parental abduction, except in life-threatening situations.

Mr. O’Mara has engaged in successful litigation that has created new benefit expansion for safety officers in the area of the cancer presumption (Faust case), hernia presumption (Stanley case), and has protected the industrial leave Labor Code 4800.5 benefits (Escobar case). This has generated a substantial enhancement of benefits for all safety officers within the State of California. Mr. O’Mara is stead fast and dedicated to the expansion and protection of the rights of al...l injured California workers. He began the practice of law in 1977 and initially worked in defending cases until 1982 at which time he commenced the exclusive representation of California injured workers. Mr. O’Mara is a graduate of the University of San Diego (1970), the California Military Academy (1972), a commissioned Officer in the United States Army (1972) and a graduate of Cabrillo Pacific School of Law in 1977.