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CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions
Section 3200. - 3200. The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the term...
Section 3201. - 3201. This division and Division 5 (commencing with Section 6300)...
Section 3201.5. - 3201.5. (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c),...
Section 3201.7. - 3201.7. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the Department...
Section 3201.81. - 3201.81. In the horse racing industry, the organization certified by...
Section 3201.9. - 3201.9. (a) On or before June 30, 2004, and biannually...
Section 3202. - 3202. This division and Division 5 (commencing with Section 6300)...
Section 3202.5. - 3202.5. All parties and lien claimants shall meet the evidentiary...
Section 3203. - 3203. This division and Division 5 (commencing with Section 6300)...
Section 3204. - 3204. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions hereinafter set...
Section 3205. - 3205. “Division” means the Division of Workers’ Compensation. (Amended by...
Section 3205.5. - 3205.5. “Appeals board” means the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board of...
Section 3206. - 3206. “Administrative director” means the Director of the Division of...
Section 3207. - 3207. “Compensation” means compensation under this division and includes every...
Section 3208. - 3208. “Injury” includes any injury or disease arising out of...
Section 3208.05. - 3208.05. (a) “Injury” includes a reaction to or a side...
Section 3208.1. - 3208.1. An injury may be either: (a) “specific,” occurring as...
Section 3208.2. - 3208.2. When disability, need for medical treatment, or death results...
Section 3208.3. - 3208.3. (a) A psychiatric injury shall be compensable if it...
Section 3208.4. - 3208.4. In any proceeding under this division involving an injury...
Section 3209. - 3209. “Damages” means the recovery allowed in an action at...
Section 3209.3. - 3209.3. (a) “Physician” includes physicians and surgeons holding an M.D....
Section 3209.4. - 3209.4. The inclusion of optometrists in Section 3209.3 does not...
Section 3209.5. - 3209.5. Medical, surgical, and hospital treatment, including nursing, medicines, medical...
Section 3209.6. - 3209.6. The inclusion of chiropractors in Sections 3209.3 and 3209.5...
Section 3209.7. - 3209.7. Treatment of injuries at the expense of the employer...
Section 3209.8. - 3209.8. Treatment reasonably required to cure or relieve from the...
Section 3209.9. - 3209.9. The inclusion of acupuncturists in Section 3209.3 does not...
Section 3209.10. - 3209.10. (a) Medical treatment of a work-related injury required to...
Section 3209.11. - 3209.11. (a) An employer, workers’ compensation insurer, self-insured employer, or...
Section 3210. - 3210. “Person” includes an individual, firm, voluntary association, or a...
Section 3211. - 3211. “Insurer” includes the State Compensation Insurance Fund and any...
Section 3211.5. - 3211.5. For purposes of this division, whenever the term “firefighter,”...
Section 3211.9. - 3211.9. “Disaster council” means a public agency established by ordinance...
Section 3211.91. - 3211.91. “Accredited disaster council” means a disaster council that is...
Section 3211.92. - 3211.92. (a) “Disaster service worker” means any natural person who...
Section 3211.93. - 3211.93. “Disaster service” means all activities authorized by and carried...
Section 3211.93a. - 3211.93a. “Disaster service” does not include any activities or functions...
Section 3212. - 3212. In the case of members of a sheriff’s office...
Section 3212.1. - 3212.1. (a) This section applies to all of the following:...
Section 3212.15. - 3212.15. (a) This section applies to all of the following:...
Section 3212.2. - 3212.2. In the case of officers and employees in the...
Section 3212.3. - 3212.3. In the case of a peace officer who is...
Section 3212.4. - 3212.4. In the case of a member of a University...
Section 3212.5. - 3212.5. In the case of a member of a police...
Section 3212.6. - 3212.6. In the case of a member of a police...
Section 3212.7. - 3212.7. In the case of an employee in the Department...
Section 3212.8. - 3212.8. (a) In the case of members of a sheriff’s...
Section 3212.85. - 3212.85. (a) This section applies to peace officers described in...
Section 3212.86. - 3212.86. (a) This section applies to any employee with a...
Section 3212.87. - 3212.87. (a) This section applies to the following employees: (1)...
Section 3212.88. - 3212.88. (a) This section applies to employees who are not...
Section 3212.9. - 3212.9. In the case of a member of a police...
Section 3212.10. - 3212.10. In the case of a peace officer of the...
Section 3212.11. - 3212.11. This section applies to both of the following: (a)...
Section 3212.12. - 3212.12. (a) This section applies to peace officers, as defined...
Section 3213. - 3213. In the case of a member of the University...
Section 3213.2. - 3213.2. (a) In the case of a member of a...
Section 3214. - 3214. (a) The Department of Corrections and the Department of...
Section 3215. - 3215. Except as otherwise permitted by law, any person acting...
Section 3217. - 3217. (a) Section 3215 shall not be construed to prevent...
Section 3218. - 3218. A violation of Section 3215 is a public offense...
Section 3219. - 3219. (a) (1) Except as otherwise permitted by law, any...
CHAPTER 2 - Employers, Employees, and Dependents
ARTICLE 1 - Employers
Section 3300. - 3300. As used in this division, “employer” means: (a) The...
Section 3301. - 3301. As used in this division, “employer” excludes the following:...
Section 3302. - 3302. (a) (1) When a licensed contractor enters an agreement...
ARTICLE 2 - Employees
Section 3350. - 3350. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth...
Section 3351. - 3351. “Employee” means every person in the service of an...
Section 3351.5. - 3351.5. “Employee” includes: (a) Any person whose employment training is...
Section 3352. - 3352. (a) “Employee,” excludes the following: (1) A person defined...
Section 3352.94. - 3352.94. “Employee” excludes a disaster service worker while performing services...
Section 3353. - 3353. “Independent contractor” means any person who renders service for...
Section 3354. - 3354. Employers of employees defined by subdivision (d) of Section...
Section 3355. - 3355. As used in subdivision (d) of Section 3351, the...
Section 3356. - 3356. As used in subdivision (d) of Section 3351 and...
Section 3357. - 3357. Any person rendering service for another, other than as...
Section 3358. - 3358. Watchmen for nonindustrial establishments, paid by subscription by several...
Section 3360. - 3360. Workmen associating themselves under a partnership agreement, the principal...
Section 3361. - 3361. Each member registered as an active firefighting member of...
Section 3361.5. - 3361.5. Notwithstanding Section 3351, a volunteer, unsalaried person authorized by...
Section 3362. - 3362. Each male or female member registered as an active...
Section 3362.5. - 3362.5. Whenever any qualified person is deputized or appointed by...
Section 3363. - 3363. Each member registered with the Department of Fish and...
Section 3363.5. - 3363.5. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 3351, 3352, and 3357, a person...
Section 3363.6. - 3363.6. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 3351, 3352, and 3357, a person...
Section 3364. - 3364. Notwithstanding paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 3352,...
Section 3364.5. - 3364.5. Notwithstanding Section 3351 of the Labor Code, a volunteer,...
Section 3364.55. - 3364.55. A ward of the juvenile court engaged in rehabilitative...
Section 3364.6. - 3364.6. Notwithstanding Sections 3351 and 3352, juvenile traffic offenders pursuant...
Section 3364.7. - 3364.7. Notwithstanding Sections 3351 and 3352, a ward of the...
Section 3365. - 3365. For the purposes of this division: (a) Except as...
Section 3366. - 3366. (a) For the purposes of this division, each person...
Section 3367. - 3367. (a) For purposes of this division any person voluntarily...
Section 3368. - 3368. Notwithstanding any provision of this code or the Education...
Section 3369. - 3369. The inclusion of any person or groups of persons...
Section 3370. - 3370. (a) Each inmate of a state penal or correctional...
Section 3370.1. - 3370.1. (a) Each patient in a State Department of State...
Section 3371. - 3371. If the issues are complex or if the inmate...
Section 3371.1. - 3371.1. If the issues are complex or if the patient...
ARTICLE 3 - Dependents
Section 3501. - 3501. (a) A child under the age of 18 years,...
Section 3502. - 3502. In all other cases, questions of entire or partial...
Section 3503. - 3503. No person is a dependent of any deceased employee...
ARTICLE 4 - Employee Notice
Section 3550. - 3550. (a) Every employer subject to the compensation provisions of...
Section 3551. - 3551. (a) Every employer subject to the compensation provisions of...
Section 3553. - 3553. Every employer subject to the compensation provisions of this...
CHAPTER 3 - Conditions of Compensation Liability
Section 3600. - 3600. (a) Liability for the compensation provided by this division,...
Section 3600.1. - 3600.1. (a) Whenever any firefighter of the state, as defined...
Section 3600.2. - 3600.2. (a) Whenever any peace officer, as defined in Section...
Section 3600.3. - 3600.3. (a) For the purposes of Section 3600, an off-duty...
Section 3600.4. - 3600.4. (a) Whenever any firefighter of a city, county, city...
Section 3600.5. - 3600.5. (a) If an employee who has been hired or...
Section 3600.6. - 3600.6. Disaster service workers registered by a disaster council while...
Section 3600.8. - 3600.8. (a) No employee who voluntarily participates in an alternative...
Section 3601. - 3601. (a) Where the conditions of compensation set forth in...
Section 3602. - 3602. (a) Where the conditions of compensation set forth in...
Section 3603. - 3603. Payment of compensation in accordance with the order and...
Section 3604. - 3604. It is not a defense to the State, any...
Section 3605. - 3605. The compensation due an injured minor may be paid...
CHAPTER 4 - Compensation Insurance and Security
ARTICLE 1 - Insurance and Security
Section 3700. - 3700. Every employer except the state shall secure the payment...
Section 3700.1. - 3700.1. As used in this article: (a) “Director” means the...
Section 3700.5. - 3700.5. (a) The failure to secure the payment of compensation...
Section 3701. - 3701. (a) Each year every private self-insuring employer shall secure...
Section 3701.3. - 3701.3. The director shall return to a private self-insured employer...
Section 3701.5. - 3701.5. (a) If the director determines that a private self-insured...
Section 3701.7. - 3701.7. Where any employer requesting coverage under a new or...
Section 3701.8. - 3701.8. (a) As an alternative to each private self-insuring employer...
Section 3701.9. - 3701.9. (a) A certificate of consent to self-insure shall not...
Section 3702. - 3702. (a) A certificate of consent to self-insure may be...
Section 3702.1. - 3702.1. (a) No person, firm, or corporation, other than an...
Section 3702.2. - 3702.2. (a) All self-insured employers shall file a self-insurer’s annual...
Section 3702.3. - 3702.3. Failure to submit reports or information as deemed necessary...
Section 3702.5. - 3702.5. (a) (1) The cost of administration of the public...
Section 3702.6. - 3702.6. (a) The director shall establish an audit program addressing...
Section 3702.7. - 3702.7. A certificate of consent to administer claims of self-insured...
Section 3702.8. - 3702.8. (a) Employers who have ceased to be self-insured employers...
Section 3702.9. - 3702.9. (a) In addition to remedies and penalties otherwise provided...
Section 3702.10. - 3702.10. The director, in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with...
Section 3703. - 3703. So long as the certificate has not been revoked,...
Section 3705. - 3705. The Self-Insurers’ Security Fund or the surety making payment...
Section 3706. - 3706. If any employer fails to secure the payment of...
Section 3706.5. - 3706.5. The provisions of this article and Sections 4553, 4554,...
Section 3707. - 3707. The injured employee or his dependents may in such...
Section 3708. - 3708. In such action it is presumed that the injury...
Section 3708.5. - 3708.5. If an employee brings such an action for damages,...
Section 3709. - 3709. If, as a result of such action for damages,...
Section 3709.5. - 3709.5. After the payment of attorney’s fees fixed by the...
ARTICLE 2 - Uninsured Employers Fund
Section 3710. - 3710. (a) The Director of Industrial Relations shall enforce the...
Section 3710.1. - 3710.1. Where an employer has failed to secure the payment...
Section 3710.2. - 3710.2. Failure of an employer, officer, or anyone having direction,...
Section 3710.3. - 3710.3. Whenever a stop order has been issued pursuant to...
Section 3711. - 3711. The director, an investigator for the Department of Insurance...
Section 3712. - 3712. (a) The securing of the payment of compensation in...
Section 3714. - 3714. (a) All cases involving the Uninsured Employers Fund or...
Section 3715. - 3715. (a) Any employee, except an employee as defined in...
Section 3716. - 3716. (a) If the employer fails to pay the compensation...
Section 3716.1. - 3716.1. (a) In any hearing, investigation, or proceeding, the Attorney...
Section 3716.2. - 3716.2. Notwithstanding the precise elements of an award of compensation...
Section 3716.3. - 3716.3. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the...
Section 3716.4. - 3716.4. Whenever a final judgment has been entered against a...
Section 3716.5. - 3716.5. In the payment of workers’ compensation benefits from the...
Section 3717. - 3717. (a) A findings and award that is the subject...
Section 3717.1. - 3717.1. In any claim in which an alleged uninsured employer...
Section 3717.2. - 3717.2. Upon request of the director, the appeals board shall...
Section 3718. - 3718. The cause of action provided in Section 3717 and...
Section 3719. - 3719. Any suit, action, proceeding, or award brought or made...
Section 3720. - 3720. (a) When the appeals board or the director determines...
Section 3720.1. - 3720.1. (a) In any claim in which the alleged uninsured...
Section 3721. - 3721. The director shall provide the employer with a certificate...
Section 3722. - 3722. (a) At the time the stop order is issued...
Section 3725. - 3725. If an employer desires to contest a penalty assessment...
Section 3726. - 3726. (a) When no petition objecting to a penalty assessment...
Section 3727. - 3727. If the director determines pursuant to Section 3722 that...
Section 3727.1. - 3727.1. The director may withdraw a stop order or a...
Section 3728. - 3728. (a) The director may draw from the State Treasury...
Section 3730. - 3730. When the last day for filing any instrument or...
Section 3731. - 3731. Any stop order or penalty assessment order may be...
Section 3732. - 3732. (a) If compensation is paid or becomes payable from...
Section 3733. - 3733. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is...
ARTICLE 2.5 - Self-Insurers Security Fund
Section 3740. - 3740. It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting...
Section 3741. - 3741. As used in this article: (a) “Director” means the...
Section 3742. - 3742. (a) The Self-Insurers’ Security Fund shall be established as...
Section 3743. - 3743. (a) Upon order of the director pursuant to Section...
Section 3744. - 3744. (a) (1) The fund shall have the right and...
Section 3745. - 3745. (a) The fund shall maintain cash, readily marketable securities,...
Section 3746. - 3746. The fund shall annually contract for an independent certified...
Section 3747. - 3747. This article shall be known and may be referred...
ARTICLE 3 - Insurance Rights and Privileges
Section 3750. - 3750. Nothing in this division shall affect: (a) The organization...
Section 3751. - 3751. (a) No employer shall exact or receive from any...
Section 3752. - 3752. Liability for compensation shall not be reduced or affected...
Section 3753. - 3753. The person entitled to compensation may, irrespective of any...
Section 3754. - 3754. Except as provided in paragraph (12) of subdivision (f)...
Section 3755. - 3755. If the employer is insured against liability for compensation,...
Section 3756. - 3756. If at the time of the suffering of a...
Section 3757. - 3757. If it thereafter appears to the satisfaction of the...
Section 3758. - 3758. A proceeding to obtain compensation shall not abate on...
Section 3759. - 3759. The appeals board may enter its order relieving the...
Section 3760. - 3760. Every employer who is insured against any liability imposed...
Section 3761. - 3761. (a) An insurer securing an employer’s liability under this...
Section 3762. - 3762. (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c),...
ARTICLE 4 - Construction Permit
Section 3800. - 3800. (a) Every county or city which requires the issuance...
ARTICLE 5 - Workers Compensation Misrepresentations
Section 3820. - 3820. (a) In enacting this section, the Legislature declares that...
Section 3822. - 3822. The administrative director shall, on an annual basis, provide...
Section 3823. - 3823. (a) The administrative director, in coordination with the Bureau...
CHAPTER 5 - Subrogation of Employer
Section 3850. - 3850. As used in this chapter: (a) “Employee” includes the...
Section 3851. - 3851. The death of the employee or of any other...
Section 3852. - 3852. The claim of an employee, including, but not limited...
Section 3853. - 3853. If either the employee or the employer brings an...
Section 3854. - 3854. If the action is prosecuted by the employer alone,...
Section 3855. - 3855. If the employee joins in or prosecutes such action,...
Section 3856. - 3856. In the event of suit against such third party:...
Section 3857. - 3857. The court shall, upon further application at any time...
Section 3858. - 3858. After payment of litigation expenses and attorneys’ fees fixed...
Section 3859. - 3859. (a) No release or settlement of any claim under...
Section 3860. - 3860. (a) No release or settlement under this chapter, with...
Section 3861. - 3861. The appeals board is empowered to and shall allow,...
Section 3862. - 3862. Any employer entitled to and who has been allowed...
Section 3864. - 3864. If an action as provided in this chapter prosecuted...
Section 3865. - 3865. Any judgment or settlement of an action as provided...
CHAPTER 7 - Medical Examinations
Section 4050. - 4050. Whenever the right to compensation under this division exists...
Section 4051. - 4051. The request or order for the medical examination shall...
Section 4052. - 4052. The employee may employ at his own expense a...
Section 4053. - 4053. So long as the employee, after written request of...
Section 4054. - 4054. If the employee fails or refuses to submit to...
Section 4055. - 4055. Any physician who makes or is present at any...
Section 4055.2. - 4055.2. Any party who subpoenas records in any proceeding under...
Section 4056. - 4056. No compensation is payable in case of the death...
CHAPTER 8 - Election to Be Subject to Compensation Liability
Section 4150. - 4150. When an employer has in his employment any person...
Section 4151. - 4151. Election on the part of the employer shall be...
Section 4152. - 4152. The statement, when filed, shall operate, within the meaning...
Section 4153. - 4153. Such statement of acceptance includes persons whose employment is...
Section 4154. - 4154. Where any employer has made an election in either...
Section 4155. - 4155. The State and each county, city, district, and public...
Section 4156. - 4156. Liability for compensation does not attach to any employer...
Section 4157. - 4157. Where any employer has made an election pursuant to...
CHAPTER 9 - Economic Opportunity Programs
ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions
Section 4201. - 4201. It is the intent of this chapter to apply...
Section 4202. - 4202. “Economic Opportunity Program” means any program adopted pursuant to...
Section 4203. - 4203. “Enrollee” means any person enrolled in an economic opportunity...
Section 4204. - 4204. “Sponsoring agency” means any agency, entity, or institution, public...
Section 4205. - 4205. “Participating agency” means any agency, entity or institution, public...
Section 4206. - 4206. Except as provided in this chapter, an enrollee within...
Section 4207. - 4207. Compensation shall be furnished an enrollee for injury or...
Section 4208. - 4208. Where the conditions of compensation exist, the right to...
Section 4209. - 4209. Insofar as not inconsistent with the provisions of this...
ARTICLE 2 - Benefits
Section 4211. - 4211. Where liability for compensation exists, such compensation shall be...
Section 4212. - 4212. If an enrollee suffers injury or death in the...
Section 4213. - 4213. If the injury sustained by an enrollee causes permanent...
Section 4214. - 4214. In addition to death benefit in the event of...
ARTICLE 3 - Adjustment of Claims
Section 4226. - 4226. Should the United States government or any agent thereof,...
Section 4227. - 4227. If the United States government or any agent thereof...
Section 4228. - 4228. If the furnishing of medical treatment by the United...
Section 4229. - 4229. If the furnishing of compensation benefits to an enrollee...
CHAPTER 10 - Disaster Service Workers
Section 4350. - 4350. The Office of Emergency Services shall administer this chapter...
Section 4351. - 4351. Compensation provided by this division is the exclusive remedy...
Section 4352. - 4352. (a) No compensation shall be paid or furnished to...
Section 4353. - 4353. If a disaster service worker suffers injury or death...
Section 4354. - 4354. If the injury sustained by a disaster service worker...
Section 4355. - 4355. (a) Should the United States Government or any agent...
CHAPTER 11 - Asbestos Workers Account
Section 4401. - 4401. It is the declared policy of the state that...
Section 4402. - 4402. (a) “Asbestosis” means any pathology, whether or not combined...
Section 4403. - 4403. The Asbestos Workers’ Account is hereby created in the...
Section 4404. - 4404. Insofar as not inconsistent with the provisions of this...
Section 4405. - 4405. Where the conditions of compensation exist under this division...
Section 4406. - 4406. (a) Payments as advances on workers’ compensation asbestos workers’...
Section 4407. - 4407. When the account determines that the conditions in Section...
Section 4407.3. - 4407.3. For purposes of this chapter, the death benefit shall...
Section 4407.5. - 4407.5. Benefits provided by this chapter shall not be commuted...
Section 4408. - 4408. Prior to seeking compensation benefits under this chapter, the...
Section 4409. - 4409. The Director of Industrial Relations, or his or her...
Section 4409.5. - 4409.5. The administrative director shall appoint workers’ compensation judges and...
Section 4410. - 4410. The administrative director shall appoint at least two information...
Section 4411. - 4411. (a) When a claim is made against the Asbestos...
ARTICLE 3 - Collections
Section 4412. - 4412. The Asbestos Workers’ Account shall take all reasonable and...
Section 4413. - 4413. No limitation of time provided by this division shall...
Section 4414. - 4414. Immediately following the receipt of knowledge of initiation of...
Section 4415. - 4415. In any hearing or proceeding, the Director of Industrial...
Section 4416. - 4416. Once an agreement as to the responsible employer is...
Section 4417. - 4417. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to preclude...
Section 4418. - 4418. The provisions of this chapter providing for the payment...