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2021 California Code
Labor Code - LAB
DIVISION 4 - WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INSURANCE
PART 2 - COMPUTATION OF COMPENSATION
CHAPTER 1 - Average Earnings
Section 4459.
Universal Citation: CA Labor Code § 4459 (2021)
4459.
The fact that an employee has suffered a previous disability, or received compensation therefor, does not preclude him from compensation for a later injury, or his dependents from compensation for death resulting therefrom, but in determining compensation for the later injury, or death resulting therefrom, his average weekly earnings shall be fixed at the sum which reasonably represents his earning capacity at the time of the later injury.
(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
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