Thomas E. Youngdale, Attorney at Law

Thomas Youngdale graduated from Lincoln University School of Law and worked as a Self-insurance Administrator for major corporations including U.S. Steel, Chevron Corporation and Kaiser Permanente before joining defense firm Allen, Rhodes & Sobelsohn in their Palm Springs office in 1992.    In 1994 he joined the legal department of Fremont Compensation Insurance Company in San Francisco and became their Supervising Attorney in that office.  In 1998 he spent a year in Sacramento with Mastagni, Holstedt & Chiurazzi as an applicant's attorney before joining Grancell, Lebovitz, et al. in their San Jose office.  He has been with Gray & Prouty for the last five years and is currently working out of the San Luis Obispo office.  He has over 30 years of experience in the workers' compensation field and has served on the boards of the workers' compensation section of California Manufacturer's Association and California Self-Insurer's Association.  He has represented employers, insurance carriers and third party administrators with regard to Long Shore and Harbor Workers cases, Federal Black Lung litigation and State Workers' Compensation in both Utah (for U.S. Steel) and California including representation employers Serious and Willful and Labor Code '132(a) matters.  He also has extensive experience with regard to assisting and preparing workers' compensation fraud cases for submission and prosecution by district attorneys' offices in both Northern and Southern California.