Anaheim WCAB District Office

Parking: free and ample, on both sides of the building. Do not use reserved, Metrolink, or property management spaces.

Transit — rail stops behind the building. The Metrolink Inland Empire–Orange County Line, Anaheim Canyon station, stops behind the building’s west parking lot.

If you have a choice between this office and Santa Ana for accessibility reasons, this is the one that works without a car.

Security: check in at the front counter in Suite 170.

Food: Taco Bell, Carl’s Jr., Starbucks, and the Village Shopping Center nearby.

Your hearing notice gives a session, not a time. Cases are set in the morning or afternoon block and called in turn. Plan on half a day for anything in person, and a full day for a trial.

Check in first, at Suite 170. In DIR’s words: “Visitors must check in at the front counter in Suite 170. Visitors are not allowed to wait or stand around in the building’s main lobby area.” The waiting room has seating, with more outside.

What to bring:

• Your notice of hearing. It carries your case number and, for a conference, the video link.
• Government photo ID. Anaheim’s published rule is the counter check-in, not ID screening, but the San Bernardino and Riverside offices require photo ID at the door. Bring it.
• Every letter from the claims administratorClaims administrator / adjuster The person handling your claim for the insurer or self-insured employer. and every medical report on the issue being heard.
• Bottled water only. DIR bans food, gum, and every other drink on the second floor and in the Suite 170 waiting room. Smoking is allowed only in designated outdoor areas.

Children should not be brought to court — the office’s own page says so, and there is no childcare. If you cannot arrange care, tell your attorney before the hearing date, not at the door.

Filing in person. DIR’s Anaheim page does not say where filings are taken. Ask at the Suite 170 front counter when you check in, and keep a date-stamped copy as proof of the filing date.

If you need an interpreter, you do not pay for it. The claims administrator pays for a certified interpreter at an Appeals Board hearing. If you have a lawyer, your lawyer arranges it. If you do not, the defendant must — that is the DWC’s own rule for unrepresented workers. Ask in writing, as early as you can.

If you have a disability, the DWC’s district office accommodation coordinator is at 1-866-681-1459. Ask at least five days before the hearing for an assistive listening device or computerized translation, and make a separate request for each hearing date.

Remote by video: status conferences, mandatory settlement conferences, priority conferences, rating MSCs, and lien conferences.

In person: trials, lien trials, expedited hearings, and walk-throughs.

Walk-throughWalk-through Presenting a matter directly to a judge, usually for settlement approval. hours: the standard 8:00–11:00 a.m. and 1:00–4:00 p.m. window.

The video link is on your hearing notice. Each judge has a virtual courtroom on the CourtCall platform, and every courtroom also has a call-in number. It runs in a browser; nothing to install. On a phone, turn off battery saving — it is the usual reason people drop out mid-hearing.

An in-person hearing can sometimes be heard by video, but only if the judge agrees. A party may petition for it, and the DWC says those requests are decided case by case. Ask early; do not assume.

Every DWC courtroom has public Wi-Fi, added when conferences moved to video in March 2025.

Most cases end at the mandatory settlement conferenceMSC Mandatory Settlement Conference. Where most cases end — and where discovery closes., and at this office it is held by video. It is also where discovery closes: evidence not disclosed by then is generally inadmissible at trial. Once either side files a Declaration of Readiness to ProceedDOR Declaration of Readiness to Proceed. Forces the calendar. You have 10 calendar days to object, or objections to proceeding on its issues are waived., these are the days that follow.

A case review is worth the most before the settlement conference, and much less afterward. After that date, what the file is missing stays missing.

Not every hearing needs a lawyer, and if yours does not, we will tell you on the phone. These are the moments at this office when one usually matters.

• A Declaration of Readiness arrived.

  The time to object is 10 calendar days from service. A party who does not object waives its objections to proceeding on the issues in it, absent extraordinary circumstances.

• Your settlement conference is set.

  Discovery closes that day, and a missing report, an un-deposed evaluator or an unclaimed body part becomes permanent at it.

• A settlement is ready to be walked through.

  A Compromise and ReleaseC&R — Compromise and Release A lump sum that closes future medical treatment permanently. can go before a judge here the same day, and it closes future medical care for a lump sum. Read it before it reaches the judge.

• Your case is set for trial.

  It is in person, at 1065 N. Link, so plan on a full day: check in at Suite 170, and if a map will not find the street, try its old name, Pacificenter Drive.

• Your employer had no insurance.

  The Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust FundUEBTF Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust Fund. Pays benefits where the employer was illegally uninsured. works from this office, and its process is procedurally unforgiving.

• You need an interpreter.

  The claims administrator pays for a certified interpreter at a hearing. Without a lawyer, the defendant must arrange it, so ask in writing, as early as you can.

Call the same day if the claim was denied, you were fired or punished for filing, or more than a year has passed with nothing paid. Those involve deadlines that cannot be fixed once missed.

And when you probably do not need us. If the claim was accepted, treatment is being authorized, payments are arriving every two weeks, and there is no permanent impairment, you probably do not. Information & Assistance is in this building, in Suite 170, and it answers questions and helps with forms at no cost. We will tell you that on the phone, too.

Whatever is not on the exhibit list at the settlement conference does not come in at trial. So the work happens before it.

1. We read the file before the settlement conference. A missing supplemental report, an un-deposed evaluator, an unclaimed body part, an unraised apportionmentApportionment Dividing permanent disability between industrial and non-industrial causes. It is to disability, not to findings on an image. defect: each can be dealt with before that date, and becomes permanent at it.
2. We list every witness and every exhibit. The joint Pretrial Conference StatementPretrial Conference Statement The joint document listing issues, stipulations, proposed ratings, witnesses, and every exhibit. What is not on it does not come in. sets out the issues, the stipulations, each side’s proposed permanent disabilityPD Permanent Disability. Compensation for lasting impairment. A different and much lower weekly rate — 2026 maximum $290/week. rating, every witness, and every exhibit, with the author, date, and title of each document.
3. We prepare you for the day. Whether you will be on video or in this building, which session you are set in, and to check in at Suite 170 rather than wait in the main lobby. If the facts are disputed, you will testify, briefly: tell the truth, answer only what is asked, do not guess, and describe your limits accurately, including the good days.
4. We watch the clocks after the decision. A Petition for ReconsiderationPetition for Reconsideration Appeal from a final order. 20 days. A non-final order takes a Petition for Removal instead. has 20 days, and only from a final order. A non-final order is challenged by Petition for Removal instead, and filing the wrong one wastes the deadline.

A walk-through puts a document in front of a judge the same day, without a Declaration of Readiness and without waiting for a hearing to be set. The rule is 8 CCR § 10789.

What can be walked through:

• a Compromise and Release
• Stipulations with Request for AwardStips — Stipulations with Request for Award An agreed percentage paid over time, with future medical left open, and reopening available within five years of the date of injury. These are not two prices for the same thing.
• a petition for attorney’s fees for representing the worker at a deposition
• a petition to compel attendance at a medical examination or deposition
• a petition for costs

When: in DIR’s words for this office, “Walk through hours are 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.” First come, first served; there is no appointment system. Check in at Suite 170 like any other visitor.

The one advance deadline: a settlement that opens a new case — there is no case number yet — must be submitted by noon the court day before. Every other walk-through document comes with you on the day.

In person only — DWC ended virtual walk-throughs in September 2022.

How it works: you check in with the staff member the presiding judge has designated, who assigns the document to a judge, and then you appear before that judge. If that judge is unavailable, the presiding judge may reassign it. The judge can approve it, disapprove it, or take it for later review — you will not always leave with a signed award.

Anaheim can act only on an Anaheim case. A walk-through may be acted on only by a judge at the district office that has venue. A case venued in Santa Ana is walked through in Santa Ana, even though both offices are in Orange County.

Information & Assistance: (714) 414-1801, in Suite 170. I&AI&A Information & Assistance officer. Free help with questions and forms at every district office. Underused. officers help injured workers, free, with questions, forms, and the steps of a claim, and they can hold an I&A conference with the claims administrator. An interpreter at an I&A conference is paid by the claims administrator too. I&A cannot represent you. DIR publishes no I&A hours and does not say whether it takes walk-ins, so call before you go. When you don’t need a lawyer.

Disability Evaluation UnitDEU Disability Evaluation Unit. Produces formal ratings from medical reports.: (714) 414-1803, also Suite 170. The DEU turns a medical report’s impairment findings into a permanent disability rating. For an unrepresented worker, the rating on a QME report comes from a DEU. How to read your report.

Two more DWC units work from this office. DIR lists the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund and the Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust Fund here; among the Southern California office pages we checked, only Anaheim’s lists them. How the Subsequent Injuries Fund works. · When the employer had no insurance.

The DWC’s free workshops for injured workers run online, by Zoom, at 3 p.m. — the first Friday of each month in English and the third Friday in Spanish. Registration is required; the DWC publishes the dates.

Cal/OSHA is not in this building. The DWC decides benefits; Cal/OSHA enforces safety. The only Cal/OSHA enforcement office DIR lists in Orange County is in Santa Ana: 2 MacArthur Place, Suite 720, (714) 558-4451. DIR’s lookup matches your job site’s city or ZIP code to the office that covers it. Unsafe work and your rights.

Anaheim serves northern Orange County by ZIP code — Anaheim, Fullerton, Orange, Buena Park, La Habra, Brea, Placentia, Yorba Linda, Cypress, and the surrounding communities.

The docket: hospitality and theme park operations, restaurants and food service, healthcare, warehouse and distribution, manufacturing, construction, landscaping, and staffing agency placements.

The ZIP code locator is a convenience; the statute is county-based. The law lets an Application for Adjudication be filed in the county where you live, the county where the injury happened (in a cumulative trauma case, where the last injurious exposure was), or — if you have a lawyer — the county of your attorney’s principal place of business. The law requires your written consent to the venue chosen.

The train behind this building runs between two counties. Metrolink’s Inland Empire–Orange County Line also stops at downtown Riverside. Take a worker who lives in Riverside County and was hurt on a job in Anaheim: the case may be filed in Riverside County, where they live, or in Orange County, where the injury happened. Either is allowed. Choose knowingly, because trials are held in person at whichever office has the case. Inside Orange County, the law allows filing at either office; in practice the ZIP code locator decides between Anaheim and Santa Ana.

If the attorney’s county is the one chosen, the employer can undo it. It has 30 days from receiving notice of the case number and venue to object, and a timely objection moves the case to where you live or where you were hurt.

After that, venue moves only for good cause. A petition must set out the reasons specifically — and, if it is for the convenience of witnesses, their names, addresses, and what they would say. It is filed at the office that currently has venue; objections are due within 10 days, and the presiding judge rules, or sets a conference, within 30 days.

If you searched for a workers’ comp lawyer in Anaheim, read this before you call anyone — including us.

Our office is at 1625 W. Olympic Blvd, Suite 802, Los Angeles. We do not have an office in Anaheim. In practice that changes less than it sounds. A workers’ comp case is run by phone, mail and electronic filing with the DWC, and most conferences are held by video, with the link on your hearing notice. Your hearings are at the court on this page, 1065 N. Link, and a trial is in person there; we appear for our clients at Anaheim. The consultation is a free phone call in English, Spanish or Korean. If you cannot come to us, we make home and hospital visits — say so when you call.

Every Anaheim ZIP code the DWC’s locator recognizes returns this office. 92801 through 92808, and the post-office-box codes 92803, 92812, 92815 and 92817, all come back “Anaheim, 1065 N. Link, Ste 170.” None maps to Santa Ana. A case is filed in the county where you live or where you were hurt, so a worker who lives and was hurt in Anaheim has one county, Orange, and one office, this one. Because our office is in Los Angeles County, the law adds that county as a third option if you are represented — but the employer has 30 days to object, and your written consent to the venue is filed with the application. Choose knowingly: trials are in person at whichever office has the case, and this one has free parking and a train behind it.

Anaheim in the numbers that matter to a claim (U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024; percentages are our calculation):

Two in five Anaheim residents speak Spanish at home and one in four speaks English less than “very well,” so the interpreter rules above are not a footnote here. Your interpreter rights.

Where the city’s injuries come from. The docket above follows its work: hospitality and theme park operations, restaurants and food service, healthcare, manufacturing, warehouse and distribution, construction, landscaping and staffing agency placements.

Free help, and who enforces safety. Information & Assistance for Anaheim is in this building: (714) 414-1801, Suite 170. For an unsafe Anaheim job site, DIR’s lookup sends every Anaheim ZIP code to Cal/OSHA’s Santa Ana District Office, 2 MacArthur Place, Suite 720, (714) 558-4451. Unsafe work and your rights.

From downtown Anaheim without a car. OCTA Route 47 (Fullerton to Newport Beach via Anaheim Blvd) has a timepoint at Anaheim & Lincoln and meets Route 38 (Cerritos to Anaheim Hills via La Palma Ave) at La Palma. Route 38’s La Palma & Tustin timepoint is in the area OCTA’s map marks “Anaheim Canyon Metrolink” — the station behind this building. Both schedules are effective August 9, 2026; check the stops with OCTA before a trial.

Anaheim is an Orange County office. In the county, 24.3% of residents five and older speak Spanish at home, 79,078 speak Korean, and 18.3% speak English less than “very well” (American Community Survey, 2020–2024). That is why the interpreter rules above matter here — and why we take calls in English, Spanish, and Korean.

Heat reaches hospitality work too. Leisure and hospitality averaged 236,000 jobs in Orange County in 2025 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). When Cal/OSHA warned of triple-digit temperatures for July 22–27, 2026, heat advisories covered portions of Orange County. Outdoors, the law requires shade above 80°F; indoors, 8 CCR § 3396 has applied to any work area at 82°F or more since July 23, 2024 — kitchens and warehouses included. Heat illness claims.

All of Orange County.

By rail: Metrolink’s Anaheim Canyon station, on the Inland Empire–Orange County line, stops behind the building’s west parking lot (DIR). Metrolink lists the station at 1039 N. Pacificenter Dr. — the street’s old name.

By bus: DIR links to OCTA but names no route for this office.

By car: free parking on the west and east sides of the building, watched by security cameras and guards. Do not park in spaces marked reserved, or those designated for Metrolink or building management. If a map will not find 1065 N Link, try 1065 North Pacificenter Drive — the name DIR’s own directions link uses.

A case review is worth the most before the settlement conference, and much less afterward. Tell us when your case is set at this office, and we will tell you what to expect here, down to where to check in. The first call is free and takes about fifteen minutes, in English, Spanish, or Korean. There is no fee unless we recover, and you are not responsible for costs we advance if there is no recovery.