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BENEFITS & PROCESS
What the Labor Code provides, and how a claim moves
The claim, start to finish
Every deadline, in order
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Two-thirds of your wage, while you cannot work
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All benefits & process
INJURIES
What your injury may mean for your claim
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240 weeks, life care, life pension
All injuries
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THE LIBRARY · ANALYSIS
Timely analysis, held to the same standard as the rest of this site. When the law moves, these pages say what moved, when, and what it changes for an injured worker.
Every figure carries its statute and effective date
Every quote was read from a primary source
No piece carries a byline until an attorney has reviewed it
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Articles
How much is my workers’ comp case worth? One case, worked from the paycheck to the final check
Nobody honest can price your case on the phone, but the number is not a mystery.
Your money
· October 31, 2026 ·
19 min read
Your employer had no workers’ comp insurance? The state fund, the lawsuit, and the order that matters
How it works
· October 30, 2026 ·
20 min read
Can you get workers’ comp for stress? The rules that apply only to a psychiatric claim
How it works
· October 29, 2026 ·
20 min read
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Your money
7
What changed
2
Ratings
2
How it works
13
24 articles · every figure with its statute
FEATURED
YOUR MONEY, ON SCHEDULE
Nobody honest can price your case on the phone, but the number is not a mystery. Here is how it is built, piece by piece, from one illustrative California case: the paycheck, the checks along the way, the rating, future medical care, the money that is easy to leave behind, and what comes out before the final check.
October 31, 2026 · Attorney-reviewed · 19 min read
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ONE CASE, WORKED
Weekly wage $1,200
Temporary disability, 30 weeks
$24,000
30 × $800, paid as he went
Permanent disability, 18%
$18,995
Advances paid, 20 weeks
−$5,800.00
Fee, 12%
−$2,279.40
Still to come on the award
After advances and a 12% fee
$10,915.60
Job displacement voucher
$6,000
Future medical care
Open
Illustrative. Every case turns on its own facts.
HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS
20 min read
You still have a claim, and you may have two. A state fund pays the benefits, and a lawsuit can reach more. Both depend on steps taken in the right order.
October 30, 2026
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HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS
20 min read
California pays for a psychiatric injury caused by work. The rules are stricter: a diagnosis, work as more than half the cause, and six months on the job.
October 29, 2026
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HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS
20 min read
Most California employers use a medical provider network. It is a list, not a doctor: who picks first, how to switch, the distance rules and the ways out.
October 28, 2026
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YOUR MONEY, ON SCHEDULE
20 min read
The number on the settlement is not the check. Advances, the fee, EDD, medical liens, child support and Medicare each take a part, and each is knowable first.
October 27, 2026
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HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS
20 min read
No accident, just years of wear? California covers cumulative trauma, and the claim turns on a date the law sets. It is often later than you would think.
October 26, 2026
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HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS
20 min read
Restrictions after a California work injury decide what work you can be offered. When an offer costs you the $6,000 voucher, and what protects the job.
October 23, 2026
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HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS
20 min read
Settled a California workers’ comp case and got worse? Who can reopen it, the five years that run from the injury, and what a settlement does not close.
October 22, 2026
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RATES & MONEY
19 min read
Your California permanent disability rating is one line of six numbers. What each one means, how to check it, and how the final percentage becomes money.
October 21, 2026
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HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS
20 min read
A QME’s report often decides a California workers’ comp claim. How the panel of three is chosen, what happens at the exam, and how to read the report.
October 20, 2026
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YOUR MONEY, ON SCHEDULE
19 min read
When temporary disability checks stop in California, the reason decides what comes next. The notice you are owed, how the 104 weeks count, and the next check.
October 20, 2026
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HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS
19 min read
A denial letter starts the part of a California workers’ comp claim that a judge decides. How to read it, how to count the 90 days, and what carries you until a decision.
October 12, 2026
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HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS
17 min read
Your doctor asked for treatment and utilization review said no. How the review works, the deadlines that can make a denial invalid, and how to file for IMR in time.
October 12, 2026
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HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS
18 min read
Two dates start every clock in a California work injury claim: the day your employer learns of it, and the day you file the claim form. What each one sets running, who chooses your first doctor, when the first check is due, and the folder to keep from week one.
October 11, 2026
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HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS
17 min read
A crash on the job usually opens two claims: workers’ comp against your employer’s insurance, and a civil claim against the driver who caused it. When the drive is covered, what each claim pays, where a civil recovery goes, and the four clocks that start at the crash.
October 11, 2026
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HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS
17 min read
Afraid of being fired, of questions about your papers, or of not being believed? What California law actually protects when you report a work injury, and where it stops.
October 11, 2026
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YOUR MONEY, ON SCHEDULE
15 min read
Which structure it is, how the permanent disability number is built, and what future medical is worth. And what comes out before you are paid: the fee a judge approves, and the liens that are negotiated, not simply paid.
October 11, 2026
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YOUR MONEY, ON SCHEDULE
13 min read
Labor Code § 4650(d) increases any late indemnity payment 10% automatically, “without application” — and it is very frequently not added. The schedule that defines late, the § 5814 penalty on top, the employer’s 90-day exit, and the ten-minute ledger that proves all of it.
September 6, 2026
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WHAT CHANGED IN THE LAW
19 min read
SB 171 rewrote the fund that pays when an old disability and a new work injury combine. What changed in July 2026, which claims it reaches, and what to do now.
September 5, 2026
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WHAT CHANGED IN THE LAW
20 min read
On a California public safety presumption claim, liability has to be rejected within 75 days of the claim form, not 90. Who it covers, the count, what follows.
September 5, 2026
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RATES & MONEY
19 min read
For a 2026 injury, temporary disability pays $264.61 to $1,764.11 a week. Which year’s limits apply to you, how the check is figured, and what to check on it.
September 5, 2026
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RATES & MONEY
19 min read
California’s medical mileage rate rose from 72.5 to 76 cents a mile on July 1, 2026. Each trip earns the rate in effect the day you drove, not your injury date.
September 5, 2026
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RATES & MONEY
20 min read
California rates a repaired shoulder by the motion it has left, so a good repair can rate zero. What that number misses, and the checks that can change it.
September 5, 2026
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HOW THE SYSTEM ACTUALLY WORKS
20 min read
An accepted claim, paid on time, that ends with no lasting injury usually needs no lawyer. The free state officer, the signals that change it, and the fees.
September 5, 2026
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THE REFERENCE PAGE
The claim, start to finish
Every stage and every statutory deadline in one table — the reference page these articles hang off.
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