BERKELEY - The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles has now modified and revised its opinion in Estrada v. WCAB twice to clarify that the ruling is not intended to be retroactive. The California Workers' Compensation Institute hailed the rewrite and said it means that, although parties may no longer settle disputed or accrued vocational rehabilitation benefits through compromise and release agreements, the ruling will not be applied retroactively. The thousands of workers' comp claims that
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