Ohnmar M. Shin

Ohnmar Shin became a Senior Partner with Mullen & Filippi in 2012 and in their Sacramento office. After leaving the Public Defender’s office, she began her career practicing in the area of workers’ compensation law when she was hired by Mullen & Filippi in 2001. Ohnmar became a certified specialist in the area of workers’ compensation in 2011. In representing clients through all aspects of the workers’ compensation system, Ohnmar has successfully argued in front of the California Court of Appeal, 3rd Appellate District wherein the court agreed that disdainful reactions of co-workers to an employee’s abusive conduct were neither “actual events of employment” nor the “predominant cause” of her psychological injuries within the meaning of the statute. The court ruled that since the predominant cause of her injury was not an actual event of employment, but rather her own conduct, her injury was not compensable Verga v. WCAB, 159 Cal. App. 4th 174 (2008).