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 6 - Venue
Section 10488 - Objection to Venue Based on an Attorney's Principal Place of Business

Pursuant to Labor Code section 5501.5(c), any employer or insurance carrier listed on an initial Application for Adjudication of Claim may file an objection to a venue selection, based on the employee's attorney's principal place of business under Labor Code section 5501.5(a)(3), within 30 days after notice of the adjudication case number and venue is received by the employer or insurance carrier. The objecting employer or insurance carrier shall state under penalty of perjury the date when the notice of the adjudication case number and venue was received. A timely objection shall result in venue being assigned in accordance with Labor Code section 5501.5(a)(1) or (a)(2).

1. Renumbering and amendment of former section 10410 to section 10488 filed 12-17-2019; operative 1-1-2020. Submitted to OAL for printing only pursuant to Government Code section 11351 (Register 2019, No. 51). For prior history of section 10488, see Register 93, No. 52.

Note: Authority cited: Sections 133, 5307, 5309 and 5708, Labor Code. Reference: Section 5501.5, Labor Code.