An injury may be either: (a) “specific,” occurring as the result of one incident or exposure which causes disability or need for medical treatment; or (b) “cumulative,” occurring as repetitive mentally or physically traumatic activities extending over a period of time, the combined effect of which causes any disability or need for medical treatment. The date of a cumulative injury shall be the date determined under Section 5412.
Cal. Lab. Code § 3208.1
General Provisions
Applied in 24 court decisions — leading case 2 Cal. 4th 744 - Livitsanos v. Superior Court (1992)
Most recently applied in City of Jackson v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (April 2017)
Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 1024.
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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.
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