California Code of Regulations › Title 8 - Industrial Relations › Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations › Chapter 4.5 - Division of Workers' Compensation › Subchapter 1.8.5 - Electronic Adjudication Management System Rules › Article 1.3 - Filing of Documents by Parties or Lien Claimants › Section 10205.12 - Form and Size Requirements for Filed Documents

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) All documents except the medical reports
					 of treating physicians, secondary physicians, qualified or agreed medical
					 evaluators and proposed exhibits, shall be filed in accordance with the
					 following standards:
(1) Only one side of
					 each paper shall be used;
(2) All
					 documents shall be printed with black ink on white paper that is 8 ½ x11
					 inches and at least twelve pound weight. All margins shall be at least 1 inch
					 and shall be without typed or handwritten text in any margin;
(3) The first page shall include a case
					 caption that shall include the name of the injured worker or dependent claiming
					 benefits, the name of the employer and the employer's insurer or indicating the
					 employer is self-insured and a case number if one has been assigned by the
					 district office. If a case number has been assigned the number shall be
					 preceded by the abbreviation "ADJ";
(4) All non-form legal pleadings shall
					 contain a heading above the case caption containing the name of the filing
					 attorney and their state bar membership number and the attorney's law firm name
					 and address;
(5) Except as
					 otherwise provided in this section or section
					 10205.10, all OCR forms and
					 documents shall be printed in Times New Roman, Times, Courier, Palatino,
					 Century Schoolbook or similar serif font of at least 12 points in
					 size;
(6) Except as otherwise
					 provided in section
					 10205.10, all text added to the OCR
					 forms shall be in capital letters.
(7) Response to the request on the OCR forms
					 for social security numbers is optional, not mandatory.
(8) A list of body part codes is provided
					 with the document cover sheet form and posted on the Division of Workers'
					 Compensation website (http://www.dir.ca.gov/forms.html). The codes shall be
					 used on OCR forms to describe the part of the body injured.
(9) A list of district office codes for place
					 of venue is provided with the document cover sheet form and posted on the
					 Division of Workers' Compensation website (http://www.dir.ca.gov/forms.html).
					 The codes shall be used on OCR forms to describe the district office
					 venue.
(10) No single document
					 shall exceed 25 pages in length without the prior permission of the appeals
					 board or the presiding workers' compensation administrative law judge of the
					 district office with venue over the case;
(11) The text of a document shall be double
					 spaced or one and one half spaces; however, captions, headings, headers,
					 footnotes, footers and block quotations shall be single spaced.
(12) The documents shall be flat, without
					 folds and without staples.
(13) OCR
					 forms have bar codes at the top of the document. No other documents shall have
					 bar codes on the top of the document.