Los Angeles County

Our office is here. We have practiced in the downtown workers' compensation court since 1965.

Which office hears your case

Five district offices serve Los Angeles County, in practice by ZIP code — where you live or where the injury occurred. § 5501.5(a) adds a third option: the county where your attorney's principal place of business is, if you are represented.

The DWC maintains a ZIP code locator, and the Information Services Center is 1-800-736-7401. Venue is yours to choose, within what § 5501.5 allows. § 5501.5(a) lets the application be filed in the county where you live on the filing date, the county where the injury occurred (or, in cumulative trauma and occupational disease, where the last injurious exposure occurred), or the county where your attorney's principal place of business is, if you are represented. § 5501.5(b) requires your written consent to the selected venue to be filed with the application. (If the attorney's office is the one chosen, the employer may object and force one of the other two.) The DWC's ZIP code locator is a practical guide, not the rule.

What this county's work does

Los Angeles County is not one economy, and the claims follow the industry.

One number

Of California's 454,100 nonfatal workplace injuries in 2024, 35.2% were "overexertion, repetitive motion and bodily reaction" — the single largest category, larger than falls and larger than contact with objects.

Not accidents. Bodies wearing out. Those are cumulative trauma claims, and they are the ones that go unfiled, because there is no incident and no date. How they work.

Two things that are true everywhere in this county

Immigration status does not affect eligibility for California workers' compensation.

And you are entitled to an interpreter at no cost — at treatment under § 4600(g), at medical-legal exams under § 4600(f), at depositions under § 5710(b)(5), and at hearings under § 5811(b)(2). Your interpreter rights.

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