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 13 - Hearings
Section 10785 - Priority Conferences

Universal Citation: 8 CA Code of Regs 10785

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

(a) A priority conference shall be set upon the filing of a Declaration of Readiness to Proceed requesting a priority conference that shows that:

(1) The applicant is represented by an attorney and the issues in dispute include employment and/or injury arising out of and in the course of employment; or

(2) The applicant claims to have been employed by an illegally uninsured employer and the issues in dispute include employment and/or injury arising out of and in the course of employment.

(b) To the extent possible, all priority and status conferences in a case shall be conducted by the same workers' compensation judge. When discovery is complete, or when the workers' compensation judge determines that the parties have had sufficient time to complete reasonable discovery, the case shall be set for trial as expeditiously as possible.

1. New section filed 11-17-2008; operative 11-17-2008. Submitted to OAL for printing only (Register 2008, No. 47).
2. Repealer of former section 10785 and renumbering former section 10555 to section 10785, including amendment of section heading and section, filed 12-17-2019; operative 1-1-2020. Submitted to OAL for printing only pursuant to Government Code section 11351 (Register 2019, No. 51).

Note: Authority cited: Sections 133, 5307 and 5502, Labor Code. Reference: Section 5502, Labor Code.

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