§ 10622. Failure to Comply.

Disclosure, service and filing of all medical reports in the possession and control of every party to a proceeding, except as otherwise expressly provided, is essential to and required in the expeditious determination of controversies.

The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board may decline to receive in evidence, either at or subsequent to hearing, any report offered under the provisions of Labor Code Section 5703 by a party who has failed to comply with the provisions of Rules 10600, 10608, 10615, 10616 or 10618. A medical or vocational expert report shall not be refused admission into evidence at a hearing, solely upon the ground of a late filing, where examination was diligently sought and said report came into possession or control of the party offering it within the preceding seven (7) days.

Where a willful suppression of a medical or vocational expert report is shown to exist in violation of these rules, it shall be presumed that the findings, conclusions and opinions therein contained would be adverse, if produced.

The remedies in this section are cumulative to all others authorized by law.

HISTORY

1. Amendment of section and Note filed 12-19-2002; operative 1-1-2003. Submitted to OAL for printing only pursuant to Government Code section 11351 (Register 2002, No. 51).

2. Amendment of section and Note filed 9-23-2013; operative 10-23-2013. Submitted as a file and print by the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board pursuant to Government Code section 11351 (Register 2013, No. 39).

Note

Note: Authority cited: Sections 133 and 5307, Labor Code. Reference: Sections 5703 and 5708, Labor Code.