Pomona WCAB District Office

Parking is free — but only in unmarked spaces or spaces marked “RESERVED FOR 732.”

Other reserved spaces are subject to tow. This catches people regularly. Read the signage before you walk away from the car.

There is no food within walking distance.

The nearest options are at Temple Avenue and Pomona Boulevard. Eat before you come, particularly for a trial, which can run through lunch.

Transit: Foothill Transit serves the area.

Your hearing notice gives a session, not a time. Cases are set in blocks — the morning session or the afternoon session — and taken in turn. Plan on half a day for anything in person, and a full day for a trial, even if the trial itself is shorter.

What to bring:

• Your notice of hearing. It carries your case number and, for a conference, the video link.
• Government photo ID. The DWCDWC Division of Workers’ Compensation, part of the Department of Industrial Relations. Administers the system. Information Services Center: 1-800-736-7401. does not publish a screening procedure for this building, but two other Southern California offices require photo ID at the door. Bring it everywhere.
• 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.
• Water. Nothing is sold within walking distance.

Children should not be brought to court — the office says so in as many words, and there is no childcare. If you cannot arrange it, tell your attorney before the hearing date, not at the door.

Filing in person. The lobby’s information counter date-stamps and files documents during lobby hours. Keep your stamped copy — it is your 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. Say so 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. Do not assume it; ask early.

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 732 Corporate Center Drive, so plan on a full day: park only in unmarked or “RESERVED FOR 732” spaces, and eat before you come.

• An agency placed you.

  You may have two employers. Read this before you report the injury.

• You need an interpreter.

  The claims administrator pays for a certified interpreter at a hearing. Without a lawyer, the defendant must arrange it, so say so 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. For an accepted claim with a procedural question, Information & Assistance at this court is often the right first call, 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, where you may park, and to eat before you come. 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. It is how most settlements get approved quickly. 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: 8:00–11:00 a.m. and 1:00–4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, first come, first served. There is no appointment system.

The one filing 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.

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.

Pomona can only act on a Pomona case. A walk-through may be acted on only by a judge at the district office that has venue. If your case is venued in San Bernardino, you walk it through there, not here.

Pomona’s own page adds a line worth knowing: “Please let the court know if you feel your case is an emergency.”

Information & Assistance: (909) 706-4691. 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 — but for an accepted claim with a procedural question, it is often the right first call. When you don’t need a lawyer.

Disability Evaluation UnitDEU Disability Evaluation Unit. Produces formal ratings from medical reports.: (909) 629-6288. The DEU turns a medical report’s impairment findings into a permanent disability rating. For an unrepresented worker, the rating on a QMEQME Qualified Medical Evaluator. A state-certified physician who resolves disputes. Unrepresented workers get a panel of three by random draw. report comes from here. How to read your report.

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. To report an unsafe workplace, Cal/OSHA’s Los Angeles County enforcement offices are in Los Angeles, Monrovia, Van Nuys, and Long Beach. Its lookup tool matches your job site’s ZIP code to the right one. Unsafe work and your rights.

Pomona serves the eastern San Gabriel Valley and the Pomona Valley, by ZIP code — Pomona, Claremont, La Verne, San Dimas, Diamond Bar, Walnut, West Covina, Covina, and the surrounding communities — and, across the county line, Chino, Chino Hills, Montclair, Upland and western Ontario (ZIP 91762, 91764). Baldwin Park and El Monte go to Los Angeles on the DWC’s ZIP code list.

The docket reflects an inland economy heavy on logistics and industry: warehouse and distribution, truck and delivery driving, manufacturing, food processing and packing, construction, healthcare, landscaping, and staffing agency placements — which are common in inland logistics and raise the § 2810.3 client-employer question.

And heat matters more here. Inland summer temperatures put outdoor work squarely against 8 CCR § 3395 — shade above 80°F, high-heat procedures at 95°F — and warehouses have been covered by 8 CCR § 3396 since July 23, 2024. Heat illness claims.

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.

Pomona sits near a county line. A worker who lives in Pomona and was hurt at a warehouse in San Bernardino County can have the case heard in either county — both are allowed, and it is a choice worth making deliberately. Residence venue usually means less travel to the hearings that are still in person.

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.

Our office is in Los Angeles, at 1625 W. Olympic Blvd, Suite 802. We do not have an office in Pomona. Here is what that means in practice. The consultation is a phone call, free, in English, Spanish or Korean. The case itself runs by phone, mail and e-filing. Your conferences are held by video. When something must be done in person — a trial, an expedited hearing, a walk-through — it happens at this office on Corporate Center Drive, not in Los Angeles, and we appear here for our clients. If you cannot come to us, we come to you. We make home and hospital visits across the four counties we serve. Say so when you call.

Pomona by the numbers. Every figure below is for the city itself, not Los Angeles County.

One employed Pomona resident in five works in production, transportation or material moving, and the claims follow: warehouse and distribution, truck and delivery driving, manufacturing, construction, and the city’s largest sector, healthcare. If an agency placed you, read staffing agency workers before you report the injury — you may have two employers.

Which office, and why. Pomona is in Los Angeles County, and on the DWC’s ZIP code list all four Pomona ZIP codes — 91766, 91767, 91768 and 91769 — go to this office. The list also crosses the county line: Chino 91710, Chino Hills 91709, Montclair 91763, Upland 91784 and 91786, and Ontario 91762 and 91764, all in San Bernardino County, are assigned to Pomona, while Ontario 91761 goes to San Bernardino. You may file in the county where you live or the county where you were hurt, so a Pomona resident injured in Chino or Ontario can be heard in either county. Our office is in Los Angeles County too, so the attorney’s-county option points to the same county as your home, and inside the county it is the ZIP code list that normally puts the case here rather than downtown. Whichever county is chosen, your written consent is filed with the application. One more line that crosses the county: a safety complaint about a workplace in Chino, Chino Hills, Montclair, Upland or Ontario goes to Cal/OSHA’s San Bernardino district office, (909) 383-4321, not Monrovia.

More than half of Pomona speaks Spanish at home, and one resident in four speaks English less than “very well.” The interpreter is not your expense — at treatment, at medical-legal exams, at depositions and at every hearing in this building. Your interpreter rights. Consultas gratis en español — esta página en español. 한국어 무료 상담 — 한국어 안내.

Talking costs nothing: (213) 380-9310. There is no fee unless there is a recovery, and you are not responsible for costs we advance if there is no recovery.

Pomona is a Los Angeles County office. In the county as a whole, 37.6% of residents five and older speak Spanish at home, 156,737 speak Korean, and 23.4% speak English less than “very well” (American Community Survey, 2020–2024). That is why the interpreter rules above matter so much here — and why we take calls in English, Spanish, and Korean.

When the San Bernardino office closed for air-conditioning repairs in July 2024, the DWC sent in-person filings and walk-throughs to Pomona or Riverside. A courthouse closed by heat is a fair reminder of what indoor work in this region is up against — and why § 3396 exists.

All of Los Angeles County.

On foot to food: the DWC’s own directions from the office — “Take South Campus west to Temple Avenue and turn left to Pomona Boulevard.” It is not a short walk; the office itself says there is nothing within walking distance.

By bus: Foothill Transit runs Lines 190, 194, 195, 289, 480, 482, 486, and the Silver Streak to Cal Poly Pomona, and Line 289 stops at South Campus Drive and Temple Avenue. Foothill Transit does not publish a stop for 732 Corporate Center Drive itself, so check the walk before the morning of a trial.

Parking: read the signs. Unmarked or “RESERVED FOR 732” only.

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 park. 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.