What was disputed, and how it came out
Each issue the panel decided, with the reasoning it gave. An outcome is what this panel did on this record — not a rule, and not a prediction.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
Attorney Gelber spent over five years working on the applicant's Labor Code section 132a claim, including trial, reconsideration, and settlement negotiations.
Favours Applicant prevailed
The rules the panel named
Authorities as the decision cited them, with how this panel applied each one.
Labor Code section 4903(a)
The appeals board may determine and allow as liens a reasonable attorney's fee and reasonable disbursements in connection therewith.
Consideration of responsibility, care, time, and results to determine attorney's fees.
Labor Code section 4906(d)
Consideration of responsibility assumed by attorney, care exercised, time involved, and results obtained in determining attorney's fees.
Applied to evaluate attorney's fees in this case.
California Code of Regulations, title 8, section 10844