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Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB)- Petitions - where to file

Petition for reconsideration (8 Cal Code Regs. Section 10840)

Petitions for reconsideration from final orders, decisions or awards by a workers' compensation administrative law judge shall be filed at the district office of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board from which the order, decision or award was issued. *

Petitions for reconsideration received in any district office or the office of the Appeals Board in San Francisco (Reconsideration Unit), except as provided by this rule, shall neither be accepted for filing nor deemed filed for any purpose.

The only petitions for reconsideration which are to be filed at the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board in San Francisco (Reconsideration Unit) are petitions for reconsideration from final orders, decisions or awards issued by the commissioners of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.

The Appeals Board Reconsideration Unit address and location are as follows:

Workers' Compensation Appeals Board
Post Office Box 429459
San Francisco CA 94142-9459
Workers' Compensation Appeals Board
455 Golden Gate Avenue, 9th Floor
San Francisco CA 94102

Petition for removal (8 Cal Code Regs. Labor Code Section 10843)

Petitions to remove and responses or answers thereto shall be filed with the district office of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board from which relief is sought or from which an order subject to the removal process issued.

Petitions to remove received in any district office except as provided by this rule shall neither be accepted for filing nor deemed filed for any purpose and may be discarded. *

* To view addresses of various district offices located throughout the state, click on the name of the office in the list below:


Petition for writ of review (See Labor Code Section 5950, et seq.)

A party aggrieved by a final decision of the Appeals Board may apply to the court of appeal for the appellate district in which the party resides for a writ of review.