The Southern California WCAB Offices

Verified August 19, 2026

All thirteen addresses and phone numbers below were checked against the Division of Workers' Compensation's own office directory on this date. All thirteen matched. No corrections were required.

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Everyone publishes the addresses. Nobody tells you where to park, whether you need photo ID to get in the door, whether there is anywhere to eat, how long to plan for, or what is actually going to happen when you get there.

This page does. And several addresses published elsewhere are out of date.

Six things to know before you go.

1. Santa Barbara is now Goleta. The office relocated to 120 Cremona Drive, Suite 270, Goleta effective January 22, 2026.

2. Long Beach is not on Oceangate. It is at 1500 Hughes Way, Suite C203. Several directories still publish the old address.

3. Marina del Rey is not on Mindanao Way. It is at 4720 Lincoln Blvd. Mindanao Way is the overflow parking lot — which is probably how the error started.

4. Most conferences are now remote. Since March 3, 2025, status conferences, MSCs, priority conferences and lien conferences run on CourtCall video. Trials, lien trials, and expedited hearings are in person.

5. Walk-throughs are in person only — and have been since September 2022. The pandemic-era virtual walk-through was discontinued. Anyone telling you a settlement can be walked through online in 2026 is wrong.

6. Bakersfield holds no calendar on Mondays.

The offices

Los Angeles

320 W. 4th Street, 9th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90013 — the Junipero Serra State Office Building (213) 576-7335 · [email protected]

Parking: street parking is limited and monitored. Paid lots run $5–$14 a day; the lot adjacent to the building is about $13. Transit: Metro B/D Line (Red/Purple) to Pershing Square, then the 4th Street stairwell. Security: the strictest in the system — metal detectors and x-ray screening. Allow extra time. Rules: no food, gum, or drink other than bottled water on the 9th floor.

The largest workers' compensation court in California.

Van Nuys

6150 Van Nuys Blvd, Suite 105, Van Nuys, CA 91401 (818) 901-5367 · [email protected]

Parking: state building structure $9/day (limited); private lot on Calvert Street adjacent, $10/day. Street meters near the building are 2-hour maximum — not enough for a conference. Calvert allows 10 hours. Transit: Metro G Line (Orange) to Van Nuys station, short walk north. Filing: at the information desk in the lobby.

Marina del Rey

4720 Lincoln Blvd, 2nd Floor, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 (310) 482-3820 · [email protected]

Parking: in-building $15.50/day — and do not park in the retail-only area. Cheaper option: Marina parking lot #4 on Mindanao Way, $6–$8/day. Transit: Metro bus only. No rail.

Long Beach

1500 Hughes Way, Suite C203, Long Beach, CA 90810 (562) 590-5001 · [email protected]

Parking: free, entered through the front guard station. Transit: Long Beach Transit. Food: café in the adjacent Building Pod B — one of only two Southern California offices with food on site.

Pomona

732 Corporate Center Drive, Pomona, CA 91768 (909) 623-4301 · [email protected]

Parking: free — but only in unmarked spaces or spaces marked "RESERVED FOR 732." Other reserved spaces are subject to tow. This catches people. Transit: Foothill Transit. Food: nothing within walking distance. Nearest options are at Temple Avenue and Pomona Boulevard. Eat first.

Santa Ana

2 MacArthur Place, Suite 600, Santa Ana, CA 92707 (714) 558-4121 · [email protected]

Parking: up to $18/day — the most expensive of the Southern California offices. Additional lots at 3 MacArthur Place and the nearby DoubleTree. Transit: the Metrolink station is about four miles away — not walkable. OCTA bus serves the area. Food: café across the courtyard at 1 MacArthur Place with outdoor seating; restaurants at Hutton Center. No food or drink in the waiting room or hearing rooms.

Anaheim

1065 N. Link, Suite 170, Anaheim, CA 92806 (714) 414-1800 · [email protected]

Parking: free and ample, on both sides of the building. Do not use reserved, Metrolink, or management spaces. Transit: the best-served office in the system — the Metrolink Inland Empire–Orange County Line, Anaheim Canyon station, is directly behind the building. Security: check in at the front counter in Suite 170. Food: Taco Bell, Carl's Jr., Starbucks, and the Village Shopping Center nearby.

Note: the state's own page gives both "N. Link" and "North Pacificenter Drive" for this address, and some directories say Suite 160. Call ahead if you are unfamiliar with the campus.

San Bernardino

464 W. Fourth Street, Suite 239, San Bernardino, CA 92401 — the Rosa Parks Building (909) 383-4341 · [email protected]

Parking: state structure north of the building $5/day — the cheapest paid parking in the system — plus a free public lot one block away. Transit: Omnitrans. Security: photo ID is mandatory. All visitors sign in and show identification. Food: first-floor café, take-out only; Subway and Jack in the Box nearby.

Riverside

3737 Main Street, Suite 300, Riverside, CA 92501 (951) 782-4269 · [email protected]

Parking: downtown meters and city lots; small lot at University & Main; Market Street garage — first 90 minutes free. Transit: Metrolink Riverside Line, Downtown Riverside station, about a mile away; RTA Route 50. Security: photo ID required at the security desk. And note: if the building is at capacity you may be held in the ground-floor food court until you can go up. Plan for it. Food: ground-floor food court, Mission Inn restaurants, Main Street promenade.

Oxnard

1901 N. Rice Avenue, Suite 200, Oxnard, CA 93030 (805) 485-2533 · [email protected]

Parking: free, large lot. Transit: Gold Coast Transit. Food: Oxnard Outlet — Café Amri, Luna's Mexican Tradition, Uptown Pizza — plus fast food within four blocks. Note: this office asks for advance notice on emergency matters.

Goleta (formerly Santa Barbara)

120 Cremona Drive, Suite 270, Goleta, CA 93117 (805) 770-6161 · [email protected] · Effective January 22, 2026

Parking: free, lot in front of the building. Walk-throughs work differently here — you may walk a matter directly to the presiding judge, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. If unavailable, walk through in Oxnard instead. Every other office uses the standard 8–11 / 1–4 window. Food: Hollister Avenue and Storke Road.

San Diego

7575 Metropolitan Drive, Suite 202, San Diego, CA 92108 (619) 767-2083 · [email protected]

Parking: free, in front of the building. Transit: San Diego MTS. Food: none in the building — options in the shopping center behind it.

Bakersfield

1800 30th Street, Suite 100, Bakersfield, CA 93301 (661) 395-2723 · [email protected]

No calendar on Mondays. Parking: free, ample, in the building lot. Transit: Golden Empire Transit. Security: visitors wait in the lobby to be escorted through the security door by counsel or staff. An unrepresented worker cannot get past the lobby alone — someone has to come get you. Walk-throughs: documents must be filed by noon the day before. Food: none in the building; downtown restaurants nearby.

Which office is mine?

In practice it is usually the district office nearest where you live or where the injury occurred, and the state maintains a ZIP code locator — but the rule is § 5501.5(a), which also allows the county where your attorney's principal place of business is, with your written consent under § 5501.5(b).

Venue can be changed by petition for good cause — for example where the medical treatment, the witnesses, and the employer are all in a different district.

What actually happens

The walk-through

A walk-through is how a settlement gets in front of a judge the same day, without filing a Declaration of Readiness and without waiting for a hearing notice. It is the reason some settlements get approved in a week and others take months.

What can be walked through: a Compromise and Release, Stipulations with Request for Award, petitions for deposition attorney's fees, petitions to compel attendance at an exam or deposition, and petitions for costs.

What you need: the settlement document itself, and proof of service on all other parties. If there is no existing case number, the documents must be submitted by noon the business day before.

Hours: every office must have staff available 8:00–11:00 a.m. and 1:00–4:00 p.m. on court days. There is no appointment system — it is first come, first served. Goleta is the exception noted above.

One thing to prepare a client for: the judge may approve, disapprove, suspend action, or accept the matter for later review. You do not always walk out with a signed award.

The Mandatory Settlement Conference

By statute an MSC is held 10 to 30 days after a Declaration of Readiness is filed, and if the case does not settle, trial is to follow within 75 days.

The single most important thing nobody tells injured workers: the MSC closes discovery on the framed issues.

Evidence not disclosed and listed by then is generally excluded. And the exhibit rules are strict — each exhibit must be identified by author, date, and description, and medical reports with different authors or dates are separate exhibits. Cases are lost here, on paperwork.

The parties must meet and confer beforehand — judges open by asking what efforts were made — and must complete a joint Pre-Trial Conference Statement by the close of the conference, listing issues, stipulations, witnesses, and exhibits. Someone with actual settlement authority must be present, not reachable by phone later.

On timing: MSCs are calendared in blocks, not at individual times. Multiple cases are set for the same session and taken in order. Waiting is normal — plan a half day. Since conferences moved to video, that wait happens in a virtual waiting room rather than a hallway, which is easier on an injured back but no more predictable.

Status and priority conferences

A status conference is a low-stakes check-in when discovery is not complete. It does not close discovery.

A priority conference must be held within 30 days of the request, and is available where the worker is represented and the dispute involves employment or whether the injury arose out of employment — or where the employer was illegally uninsured. Where possible, the same judge hears all conferences in the case, and the matter is set for trial as expeditiously as possible once discovery is complete.

If your case is stuck on a compensability dispute, this is the mechanism that moves it.

Trial

Trials are in person. The injured worker is normally the key witness, and failure to appear has consequences. Plan a full day even though the hearing itself is usually shorter.

Remote or in person?

Your Notice of Hearing carries the join link for a remote proceeding. Keep it.

Do you personally have to attend an MSC? If you are represented, your attorney's appearance technically satisfies the rule — but the state's own guidance expects the worker to attend conferences, and a judge confirming a settlement will want you available. Since conferences are on video, the practical answer is: attend. If you are unrepresented, you must appear.

The practical questions nobody answers

Can I bring my children? No. Every office states that children should not be brought to court, and no office provides childcare or a supervised waiting area. This is a genuine hardship and it deserves a straight answer: arrange care, and if you truly cannot, tell your attorney before the hearing date. For a video conference, a parent can now appear from home — which solves it for most appearances.

What should I wear? There is no dress code anywhere in the regulations. Practically: business casual, nothing with slogans. At a trial where your credibility and physical limitations are at issue, you will be observed.

How long should I allow? - Conference: half a day. Sessions run 8:30–12:00 or 1:30–5:00 and cases are taken in order. - Trial: a full day. - Walk-through: one to two hours inside the window. - Add time for LA's screening, Riverside's capacity holds, San Bernardino's sign-in, and Bakersfield's escort — and for parking in downtown LA or Riverside.

What ID do I need? Bring government photo ID to every office. San Bernardino and Riverside require it outright, building landlords elsewhere may, and the cost of being wrong is a missed hearing.

What should I bring? Your Notice of Hearing — it has the case number and any video link. Your medical reports and every letter from the insurance company on the disputed issues. Photo ID. Parking money — anywhere from $5 at San Bernardino to $18 at Santa Ana. And bottled water, which is usually the only beverage permitted inside.

Interpreters are free. Always.

You do not pay for an interpreter. The claims administrator is liable for interpreter fees at Board hearings and arbitrations, at your deposition, at medical treatment appointments, at examinations requested by the claims administrator, at medical-legal evaluations, and at Information & Assistance conferences.

For hearings, depositions, and arbitrations the interpreter must be certified — or provisionally certified by agreement or by the judge's finding.

How to get one: tell your attorney, who is responsible for arranging it. For a phone interpreter, including for video proceedings, call 1-800-736-7401. If you are unrepresented, the Information & Assistance Unit provides free help and interpreter access.

One practical warning: interpretation over video roughly doubles the length of a hearing and is more failure-prone than in person. Join early, use a computer rather than a phone if you can, and say immediately if you cannot hear the interpreter.

If you cannot get there

Disability accommodations are available through the WCAB, the Information & Assistance Unit, and the Disability Evaluation Unit — assistive listening devices, ergonomic chairs, voice amplification, readers, large print, Braille, magnifiers, and sign-language interpreters, among others.

Request it as early as possible, using the state's accommodation request form or by contacting your district office's accommodation coordinator. Sign-language interpreters, videoconferencing, and computerized translation need 5 to 10 business days' notice.

A separate request is required for each hearing date.

Frequently asked questions

Office details verified against the Division of Workers' Compensation's published office pages as of the review date. Parking rates, hours, security procedures, and calendar practices change — call the office if anything here is critical to your plans. General information about California law, not legal advice about your case.