[Download] "Rhiner v. Workers Compensation Appeals Board" by Supreme Court Of California ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Rhiner v. Workers Compensation Appeals Board
- Author : Supreme Court Of California
- Release Date : January 08, 1993
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 81 KB
Description
When a worker suffers an industrial injury, the employer is required by law to provide workers compensation benefits. This obligation to provide benefits arises shortly after the injury has been incurred. When, upon a workers application, the Workers Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) issues an order or award, it includes benefits that the employer already has or should have paid, as well as benefits the employer is to pay in the future. (See, e.g., Lab. Code, § 4600, 4650; all further statutory citations are to the Labor Code.) If the employer has unreasonably delayed or refused payment of benefits, section 5814 requires that the WCAB, as a penalty for the employers improper conduct, increase by 10 percent "the full amount of the order, decision or award."