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 10142 - Date of Denial for Purposes of End of Tolling of Limitations Period
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
For purposes of Labor Code Section 5401(c), the date "the claim is denied" for determining when the claim form ceases to toll the specified limitations periods is:
(a) the date the written denial notice is personally served, or
(b) five days after the written denial notice is placed in the mail if the address is within the State of California, ten days if the address is outside the State of California, but within the United States and twenty days if the address is outside of the United States.
The written denial notice must be issued in accordance with the notice regulations in Title 8, CCR, Subchapter 1, Article 8, Sections 9810 et seq. in order to cease the claim form's tolling of the limitations periods.
1. Change without regulatory effect renumbering former section 10121 to section 10142 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: Section 5401, Labor Code.
