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2016 California Code
Labor Code - LAB
DIVISION 4 - WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INSURANCE
PART 3 - COMPENSATION CLAIMS
CHAPTER 2 - Compromise and Release
Section 5001.
CA Labor Code § 5001 (2016) What's This?
5001. Compensation is the measure of the responsibility which the employer has assumed for injuries or deaths which occur to employees in his employment when subject to this division. No release of liability or compromise agreement is valid unless it is approved by the appeals board or referee.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1513.)
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