“Damages” means the recovery allowed in an action at law as contrasted with compensation.
Cal. Lab. Code § 3209
General Provisions
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 9 Cal. 4th 27 - La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, Inc. v. Industrial Indemnity Co. (1994)
Most recently applied in 44 Cal. App. 4th 128 - State of California v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (April 1996)
Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.
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.