This section has been repealed. It stays here because decisions applied it while it stood, and those decisions are unreadable without it. Do not rely on it as current law.
Where this sits
- Chapter 4.5.
- Division of Workers' Compensation
- Subchapter 2. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board--Rules and Practice Procedure
- Article 13. Hearings
The regulation, as printed
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Authority and history
Note: Authority cited: Sections 133, 5307 and 5708, Labor Code. Reference: Sections 4903 and 4903.05, and Labor Code; and Sections 9792.5, 9794, 9795.4, 10390 et seq., 10561, 10770 and 10770.5, title 8, California Code of Regulations.
1. New section filed 2-24-2017; operative 3-26-2017 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3). Submitted as a file and print to OAL pursuant to Government Code section 11351 (Register 2017, No. 8). 2. Repealer filed 12-17-2019; operative 1-1-2020. Submitted to OAL for printing only pursuant to Government Code section 11351 (Register 2019, No. 51).
What panels did with this rule
Released decisions that named § 10770.7, with the passage each turned on. A panel decision persuades; it does not bind.
- ADJ7580462 · 2025-03-11 · Oxnard District Office8 CCR § 10770.7
Determinative passage · p.4On February 24, 2017, the Appeals Board adopted WCAB Rule 10770.7 providing that: Any section 4903(b) lien that is subject to a filing fee pursuant to section 4903.05 and that is filed before January 1, 2017 shall be dismissed unless, on or before July 1, 2017, the lien claimant electronically files, in accordance with Article 4 of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board Rules of Practice and Procedure, a Supplemental Lien Form and 4903.05(c) Declaration on the form approved by the Appeals Board. (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 8, § 10770.7.)
Lien claimants had until July 1, 2017, to file the declaration or the lien would be dismissed.
Official decision · page 4 →
Rules beside this one
Article 13. Hearings — regulations rarely stand alone, and the answer is often two sections away.
- § 10770Filing and Service of Lien Claims. [Repealed]
- § 10770.1Lien Conferences and Lien Trials. [Repealed]
- § 10770.5Verification to Filing of Lien Claim or Application by Lien Claimant. [Renumbered]
- § 10770.6Verification to Filing of Declaration of Readiness By or on Behalf of Lien Claimant. [Renumbered]
- § 10771Medical-Legal Expense. [Repealed]
- § 10772Unemployment Compensation Disability Liens. [Renumbered]