San Diego WCAB District Office

Before you go

Parking: free, in front of the building.

Transit: San Diego MTS serves the area.

Food: none in the building. Options are in the shopping center behind it. For a conference that may run through lunch, plan accordingly.

What is remote and what is not

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-through hours: the standard 8:00–11:00 a.m. and 1:00–4:00 p.m. window.

Who is heard here

San Diego serves San Diego County by ZIP code — San Diego, Chula Vista, Oceanside, Escondido, El Cajon, Carlsbad, Vista, National City, La Mesa, and the surrounding communities.

The docket: healthcare, hospitality and hotels, restaurants, construction, manufacturing and aerospace, warehouse and logistics, landscaping, agriculture in the county's inland and northern areas, and casino and gaming — where the tribal jurisdiction question has to be answered before anything else is filed.

On tribal gaming: a card room or commercial establishment is an ordinary California employer. A casino operated by a federally recognized tribe is a different situation — sovereign immunity, tribal-state compacts, and tribal ordinances all bear on where a claim is filed and what law governs. Do not assume either way. How that works.

And maritime and shipyard work raises the same threshold question as Long Beach — whether the federal Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act applies instead of California law. Port and longshore claims.

Frequently asked questions