ca labor code - penalties for delay?

[tbrider]

Is there a california labor code supporting financial penalties payable to applicant for financial and physical damages caused by delay of medical treatment (reasonably necessary to cure or relieve...)?

 

[seniorjudge]

Ask the California work comp bureaucrats your question.

 

[tbrider]

I have

I am awaiting a response from the CA senate, labor committee. Your reply was not very helpful.

 

[seniorjudge]

I am awaiting a response from the CA senate, labor committee. Your reply was not very helpful.

Do you mean because I gave you accurate information?

In any event, you are talking to the wrong people. Try these folks:

http://www.dir.ca.gov/WCAB/WCAB.HTM

 

[tbrider]

can you answer the question?

Is there a labor or civil code, or case law, to support a position that an insurance company is liable for damages , financial and physical, caused by their delay of medical treatment?