Managing Employee Injuries and Disability and Occupational Safety

4. Mental or Emotional Stress ....................................................................................................................28 5. Heart Disease .........................................................................................................................................28 6. Cancer ....................................................................................................................................................28 7. Special Exposure ....................................................................................................................................28 8. Secondary Injuries..................................................................................................................................29 F. Presumptions of Injury ..................................................................................................................................29 1. Injuries Covered .....................................................................................................................................29 2. Employment Covered.............................................................................................................................29 3. Eligibility ...............................................................................................................................................29 4. Effect......................................................................................................................................................30 A. In General......................................................................................................................................................30 B. Medical Benefits ...........................................................................................................................................31 1. Notice of Injury ......................................................................................................................................31 2. Employer’s Responsibility .....................................................................................................................31 3. Control of Medical Treatment – Until January 1, 2005 .........................................................................31 4. Control of Medical Treatment – After January 1, 2005 .........................................................................32 5. Reimbursement for Medical Examination Expenses..............................................................................33 6. Reasonable and Necessary Treatment ....................................................................................................33 C. Classes of Disability Benefits........................................................................................................................34 1. Temporary Disability .............................................................................................................................34 2. Benefit....................................................................................................................................................34 3. Labor Code Section 4850 Benefits.........................................................................................................35 4. Method of Payment ................................................................................................................................35 5. Timing of Payments ...............................................................................................................................35 6. Waiting Period .......................................................................................................................................35 7. Amounts .................................................................................................................................................35 8. Duration of Temporary Disability Payments/Labor Code Section 4850 Benefits .................................36 9. Formula ..................................................................................................................................................36 10. Permanent Disability ..............................................................................................................................37 11. Permanent Partial Disability...................................................................................................................39 12. Subsequent Injuries ................................................................................................................................43 13. Supplemental Job Displacement Benefits ..............................................................................................43 14. Death Benefit .........................................................................................................................................43 S ECTION 5 WCAB Procedures and Administration of the System................................................................................................45 A. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................45 1. Notices ...................................................................................................................................................45 2. Medical Legal Procedures......................................................................................................................45 3. Statute of Limitations .............................................................................................................................46 B. WCAB Proceedings ......................................................................................................................................46 1. Commencement of WCAB Proceedings ................................................................................................46 2. Hearing...................................................................................................................................................47 3. Evidence.................................................................................................................................................47 4. Decision .................................................................................................................................................47 5. Appeal of Decision.................................................................................................................................47 6. Continuing Jurisdiction ..........................................................................................................................48 7. Compromise, Settlement, and Lump Sum Computation ........................................................................48 8. Reopening, Modification, Termination and Redistribution....................................................................49 S ECTION 4 Benefits

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