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Rotator cuff and overhead work
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Concussion through catastrophic
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All injuries
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Falls, heights, third-party claims
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Burns, slips, cumulative trauma
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IF YOU READ ONE PAGE, READ THIS ONE
Ten stages, every statutory deadline in one table, and the three moments where cases quietly die.
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The map, and every deadline on it.
The map. Ten stages, every statutory deadline in one table.
What a denial is and what it is not.
The panel deadlines that decide medical development.
And the exit from it nobody uses.
How to check a denial for defects.
The 30-day appeal, and the honest odds.
What is remote, what is in person, and why the settlement conference matters more than the trial.
02
What the Labor Code provides, benefit by benefit.
All treatment reasonably required to cure or relieve.
Two-thirds of your average weekly wage, inside the § 4453 rail.
How to read your rating string.
Rewritten by SB 171 in July 2026.
03
Where cases are actually won and lost.
The largest injury category in California, and the least claimed.
04
And why the structure matters more than the number.
Two structures that treat your future medical care in opposite ways.
The only route to pain and suffering, and frequently the larger claim.
05
Four enforcement provisions, each with its own clock.
The law adds 10% automatically, “without application.”
+50%, uninsurable, twelve-month deadline.
And why § 132a is usually the smaller claim.
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