Section 4663.
4663. (a) Apportionment of permanent disability shall be based on causation. (b) A physician who prepares a report addressing the issue of permanent disability due to a claimed industrial injury shall address in that report the issue of causation of the permanent disability. (c) In order for a physician’s report to be considered complete on the issue of […]
Section 4664.
4664. (a) The employer shall only be liable for the percentage of permanent disability directly caused by the injury arising out of and occurring in the course of employment. (b) If the applicant has received a prior award of permanent disability, it shall be conclusively presumed that the prior permanent disability exists at the time of any […]
Section 4661.5.
4661.5. Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, when any temporary total disability indemnity payment is made two years or more from the date of injury, the amount of this payment shall be computed in accordance with the temporary disability indemnity average weekly earnings amount specified in Section 4453 in effect on the date each […]
Section 4662.
4662. (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 […]
Section 4653.
4653. If the injury causes temporary total disability, the disability payment is two-thirds of the average weekly earnings during the period of such disability, consideration being given to the ability of the injured employee to compete in an open labor market. (Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 1023.)
Section 4654.
4654. If the injury causes temporary partial disability, the disability payment is two-thirds of the weekly loss in wages during the period of such disability. However, such disability payment shall be reduced by the sum of unemployment compensation benefits and extended duration benefits received by the employee during the period of temporary partial disability. (Amended […]
Section 4655.
4655. If the injury causes temporary disability which is at times total and at times partial, the weekly disability payment during the period of each total or partial disability is in accordance with sections 4653 and 4654 respectively. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
Section 4656.
4656. (a) Aggregate disability payments for a single injury occurring prior to January 1, 1979, causing temporary disability shall not extend for more than 240 compensable weeks within a period of five years from the date of the injury. (b) Aggregate disability payments for a single injury occurring on or after January 1, 1979, and prior to […]
Section 4657.
4657. In case of temporary partial disability the weekly loss in wages shall consist of the difference between the average weekly earnings of the injured employee and the weekly amount which the injured employee will probably be able to earn during the disability, to be determined in view of the nature and extent of the […]
Section 4658.
4658. (a) For injuries occurring prior to January 1, 1992, if the injury causes permanent disability, the percentage of disability to total disability shall be determined, and the disability payment computed and allowed, according to paragraph (1). However, in no event shall the disability payment allowed be less than the disability payment computed according to paragraph […]