California Labor Code CHAPTER 1 - Jurisdiction

• Section 5300.
  All the following proceedings shall be instituted before the appeals board and not elsewhere, except as otherwise provided in Division 4:(a) For the recovery of compensation,...
• Section 5301.
  The appeals board is vested with full power, authority and jurisdiction to try and determine finally all the matters specified in Section 5300 subject only...
• Section 5302.
  All orders, rules, findings, decisions, and awards of the appeals board shall be prima facie lawful and conclusively presumed to be reasonable and lawful, until...
• Section 5303.
  There is but one cause of action for each injury coming within the provisions of this division. All claims brought for medical expense, disability payments,...
• Section 5304.
  The appeals board has jurisdiction over any controversy relating to or arising out of Sections 4600 to 4605 inclusive, unless an express agreement fixing the...
• Section 5305.
  The Division of Workers’ Compensation, including the administrative director, and the appeals board have jurisdiction over all controversies arising out of injuries suffered outside the...
• Section 5306.
  The death of an employer subsequent to the sustaining of an injury by an employee shall not impair the right of the employee to proceed...
• Section 5307.
  (a) The appeals board may, by an order signed by four members, do all of the following:(1) Adopt reasonable and proper rules of practice and procedure.(2) Regulate and...
• Section 5307.1.
  (a) (1) The administrative director, after public hearings, shall adopt and revise periodically an official medical fee schedule that shall establish reasonable maximum fees paid for medical...
• Section 5307.11.
  A health care provider or health facility licensed pursuant to Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, and a contracting agent, employer, or carrier...
• Section 5307.2.
  The administrative director shall contract with an independent consulting firm, to the extent permitted by state law, to perform an annual study of access to...
• Section 5307.27.
  (a) The administrative director, in consultation with the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation, shall adopt, after public hearings, a medical treatment utilization schedule,...
• Section 5307.28.
  (a)  Prior to the adoption of a drug formulary as required by Section 5307.27, the administrative director shall meet and consult regarding the establishment of...
• Section 5307.29.
  (a) The administrative director shall make provision for no less than quarterly updates to the drug formulary to allow for the provision of all appropriate medications,...
• Section 5307.3.
  The administrative director may adopt, amend, or repeal any rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary to enforce this division, except where this power is...
• Section 5307.4.
  (a) Public hearings required under Sections 5307 and 5307.3 shall be subject to the provisions of this section except to the extent that there is involved...
• Section 5307.5.
  The appeals board or a workers’ compensation judge may:(a) Appoint a trustee or guardian ad litem to appear for and represent any minor or incompetent upon...
• Section 5307.6.
  (a) The administrative director shall adopt and revise a fee schedule for medical-legal expenses as defined by Section 4620, which shall be prima facie evidence of...
• Section 5307.7.
  (a) On or before January 1, 2013, the administrative director shall adopt, after public hearings, a fee schedule that shall establish reasonable fees paid for services...
• Section 5307.8.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5307.1, the administrative director shall adopt, after public hearings, a schedule for payment of home health care services provided in accordance with Section...
• Section 5307.9.
  On or before December 31, 2013, the administrative director, in consultation with the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation, shall adopt, after public...
• Section 5308.
  The appeals board has jurisdiction to determine controversies arising out of insurance policies issued to self-employing persons, conferring benefits identical with those prescribed by this...
• Section 5309.
  The appeals board may, in accordance with rules of practice and procedure which it shall adopt and upon the agreement of the parties, on the...
• Section 5310.
  The appeals board may appoint one or more workers’ compensation administrative law judges in any proceeding, as it may deem necessary or advisable, and may...
• Section 5311.
  Any party to the proceeding may object to the reference of the proceeding to a particular workers’ compensation judge upon any one or more of...
• Section 5311.5.
  The administrative director shall require all workers’ compensation administrative law judges to participate in continuing education to further their abilities as workers’ compensation administrative law...
• Section 5312.
  Before entering upon his or her duties, the workers’ compensation judge shall be sworn, before an officer authorized to administer oaths, faithfully and fairly to...
• Section 5313.
  The appeals board or the workers’ compensation judge shall, within 30 days after the case is submitted, make and file findings upon all facts involved...
• Section 5315.
  Within 60 days after the filing of the findings, decision, order or award, the appeals board may confirm, adopt, modify or set aside the findings,...
• Section 5316.
  Any notice, order, or decision required by this division to be served upon any person either before, during, or after the institution of any proceeding...
• Section 5317.
  Any such notice, order or decision affecting the State or any county, city, school district, or public corporation therein, shall be served upon the person...

Last modified: October 22, 2018