California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 4.5 - Division of Workers' Compensation
Subchapter 2 - Workers' Compensation Appeals Board-Rules and Practice Procedure
Article 12 - Settlements
Section 10700 - Approval of Settlements

(a) When filing a Compromise and Release or a Stipulations with Request for Award, the filing party shall file all agreed medical evaluator reports, qualified medical evaluator reports, treating physician reports, and any other that are relevant to a determination of the adequacy of the Compromise and Release or Stipulations with Request for Award that have not been filed previously.

(b) The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board shall inquire into the adequacy of all Compromise and Release agreements and Stipulations with Request for Award, and may set the matter for hearing to take evidence when necessary to determine whether the agreement should be approved or disapproved, or issue findings and awards.

(c) Agreements that provide for the payment of less than the full amount of compensation due or to become due and undertake to release the employer from all future liability will be approved only where it appears that a reasonable doubt exists as to the rights of the parties or that approval is in the best interest of the parties.