“Injury” includes any injury or disease arising out of the employment, including injuries to artificial members, dentures, hearing aids, eyeglasses and medical braces of all types; provided, however, that eyeglasses and hearing aids will not be replaced, repaired, or otherwise compensated for, unless injury to them is incident to an injury causing disability.
Cal. Lab. Code § 3208
General Provisions
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 87 Cal. App. 4th 953 - Piscitelli v. Friedenberg (2001)
Most recently applied in 218 F. Supp. 2d 1177 - Walker v. Boeing Corp. (May 2002)
Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1064.
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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.