California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 4.5 - Division of Workers' Compensation
Subchapter 1.5 - Injuries on or After January 1, 1990
Article 9 - Claim Form: Availability, Filing, Acknowledgement of Receipt, Dismissal
Section 10136 - General: Definitions
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
As used in this Article, the following definitions apply:
(a) Claims Administrator. A self-administered workers' compensation insurer, a self-administered self-insured employer, a self-administered joint powers authority, or a third-party claims administrator for an insurer, a self-insured employer, a legally-uninsured employer or a joint powers authority; or an attorney or agent of any of those entities.
(b) Claim Form. The official Division of Workers' Compensation DWC Form 1 Employee's Claim for Workers' Compensation Benefits, as set forth in Section 10139 of this Article.
(c) Employee. An employee, a person claiming to be an employee, his or her dependents, or agent.
1. New
section filed 1-18-90; operative 1-18-90 (Register 90, No. 4). New section is
exempt from review by OAL pursuant to Government Code Section
11351.
2.
Amendment of subsections (b), (b)(3), (b)(4) and (c), repealer of subsections
(b)(5), (d), (e) and (f), and new subsection (d) filed 4-13-93; operative
4-13-93. Submitted to OAL for printing only pursuant to Government Code section
11351
(Register 93, No. 16)
3. Change without regulatory effect repealing
article 9 heading, renumbering former article 6 to new article 9, renumbering
former section 10136 to section
10252 and renumbering former
section 10116 to section 10136, including
amendment of subsection (b), filed 4-7-2008 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2008, No. 15).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 133 and 5307.3, Labor Code. Reference: Sections 5401, 5401.7, 5402 and 5404.5, Labor Code.
