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Cal. Labor Code § 4621 (2026)

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(a)In accordance with the rules of practice and procedure of the appeals board, the employee, or the dependents of a deceased employee, shall be reimbursed for his or her medical-legal expenses and reasonably, actually, and necessarily incurred, except as provided in Section 4064. The reasonableness of, and necessity for, incurring these expenses shall be determined with respect to the time when the expenses were actually incurred. Costs for medical evaluations, diagnostic tests, and interpreters’ services incidental to the production of a medical report shall not be incurred earlier than the date of receipt by the employer, the employer’s insurance carrier, or, if represented, the attorney of record, of all reports and documents required by the administrative director incidental to the services. This subdivision is not applicable unless there has been compliance with Section 4620.

(b)Except as provided in subdivision (c) and Sections 4061 and 4062, no comprehensive medical-legal evaluations, except those at the request of an employer, shall be performed during the first 60 days after the notice of claim has been filed pursuant to Section 5401, and neither the employer nor the employee shall be liable for any expenses incurred for comprehensive medical-legal evaluations performed within the first 60 days after the notice of claim has been filed pursuant to Section 5401.

(c)Comprehensive medical-legal evaluations may be performed at any time after the claim form has been filed pursuant to Section 5401 if the employer has rejected the claim.

(d)Where, at the request of the employer, the employer’s insurance carrier, the administrative director, the appeals board, or a referee, the employee submits to examination by a physician, he or she shall be entitled to receive, in addition to all other benefits herein provided, all reasonable expenses of transportation, meals, and lodging incident to reporting for the examination to the same extent and manner as provided for in Section 4600.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 5 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1992–2025 · leading case: Angelotti Chiropractic v. Christine Baker, 791 F.3d 1075 (9th Cir. 2015).

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Angelotti Chiropractic v. Christine Baker, 791 F.3d 1075 (9th Cir. 2015). “Providers of medical-legal services must demonstrate that the expense was “reasonably, actually, and necessarily incurred,” Cal. Labor Code § 4621 , “for the purpose of proving or disproving a contested” workers’ compensation claim, Rassp & Herlick § 17.”

Beverly Hills Multispecialty Grp., Inc. v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd., 59 Cal. Comp. Cases 461 (Cal. Ct. App. 1994). “Labor Code section 4620, subdivision (a), defines medical-legal expenses as meaning “any costs and expenses incurred by or on behalf of any party, *802 the administrative director, the board, or a referee for X-rays, laboratory fees, other diagnostic tests, medical reports,…”

Am. Psychometric Consultants, Inc. v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd., 36 Cal. App. 4th 1626 (Cal. Ct. App. 1995). “” Labor Code section 4621 was similarly expanded and amended for medical-legal expenses for which the employee claimed reimbursement, and provided, in pertinent part in subdivision (b) that “no comprehensive medical-legal evaluations, except those at the request of an employer,…”

Katzin v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd., 57 Cal. Comp. Cases 230 (Cal. Ct. App. 1992). “3 In view of the lifting incident and the evidence that applicant complained she had headaches and abdominal pains after the employer harassed her, there is substantial evidence that at least some of the medical-legal expenses were necessarily and reasonably incurred.”

People v. Woods (Cal. Ct. App. 2025). · cites it 2× “(Labor Code, § 4621; Vacanti, supra, 24 Cal.”

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