Legal Question in Workers Comp in California

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If you were released to full duty with no restrictions, that typically means the Treating Doctor found zero Permanent Disability, so your workers compensation claim would not result in any permanent disability payments for you (unless and until your attorney disputed that finding of zero Permanent Disability).

If you did not resume work after being released to full duty, your attorney should have put in writing that the employer violated Labor Code Sec. 132a and committed a misdemeanor by punishing you with separation as retaliation for claiming comp benefits.

Have a shouting match with a supervisor and walking off the jobsite would likely be found by most WCAB Judges to be abandoning the job. If I was asked 3 times by a staffer 'am I being fired' I could fire the employer for insubordination on the spot.

If this all took place in 2012, it is too late know to assert any violation of Labor Code 132a -- you said the injury was in 2011 and you recovered in a few months so I presume you presented at work in 2012 to be added to the schedule and march off when you didn't like the supervisor's lack of response. If this is the case, you waited too long to pursue your rights until LC132a...that has to be in a written petition served on the company's official agent for service within one year of the discrimination. Sorry to bear the bad news.

THE GOOD NEWS is it may not be too late to get a second opinion on the permanent disability portion of the claim... you could object to the treating doc's opinion and get a Qualified Medical Evaluator (as the expense of the employer/insurer, not cost to you). You should focus on challenging the treating doc's conclusion and getting your QME opinion very very quickly.