This division and Division 5 (commencing with Section 6300) shall be liberally construed by the courts with the purpose of extending their benefits for the protection of persons injured in the course of their employment.
Cal. Lab. Code § 3202
General Provisions
Applied in 46 court decisions — leading case 44 Cal. 3d 1188 - Evangelatos v. Superior Court (1988)
Most recently applied in 5 Cal. 5th 1039 - King v. CompPartners, Inc. (August 2018)
Amended by Stats. 1986, Ch. 248, Sec. 158.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.