Had another deposition taken today in another California litigation, and opposing counsel asked a question that I hadn’t anticipated. He asked how a Chicago based expert would know anything about California Workers Comp insurance premiums.
And I had to smile to myself, because California has become one of two hot spots for my work in recent years, (the other is Georgia) so much so that I don’t think much about the geographic distance nowadays.
In this modern age, I was having my deposition taken via Zoom, for example. And internet and inexpensive phone service have rendered what once might have been significant geographic barriers into near nonexistence.
Sure, when I started my consulting practice back in 1987, my clients were largely local. But that was a different age, a different world .
And it certainly is true that California has distinctly unique aspects to Workers Comp insurance premium rules. But since the advent of the internet, I’ve had lots of California clients, and so lots of experience with the unique elements of Workers Compensation insurance in the Golden State.
Like I said, California has become a hotspot of demand for our particular consulting services, both for civil cases and criminal cases involving Workers Compensation insurance premiums and audits. I’ll be traveling there in two weeks to offer testimony at a trial there, and I’m scheduled to be back there in early February to testify at another trial.
Back in 1971, the Ides of March sang about LA being light years from Chicago, but nowadays, not so much for this particular son of the South
