Disability Payments
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case State Compensation Insurance Fund v. Industrial Accident Commission (1963)
Most recently applied in 238 Cal. Rptr. 3d 224 - Dep't of Corr. & Rehab. v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (September 2018)
Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 46
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.
(a) Any of the following permanent disabilities shall be conclusively presumed to be total in character:
(1) Loss of both eyes or the sight thereof.
(2) Loss of both hands or the use thereof.
(3) An injury resulting in a practically total paralysis.
(4) An injury to the brain resulting in permanent mental incapacity.
(b) In all other cases, permanent total disability shall be determined in accordance with the fact.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.