Lab. Code, § 4607 · Article 2. Medical and Hospital Treatment
Lab. Code, § 4607
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Where a party to a proceeding institutes proceedings to terminate an award made by the appeals board to an applicant for continuing medical treatment and is unsuccessful in such proceedings, the appeals board may determine the amount of attorney’s fees reasonably incurred by the applicant in resisting the proceeding to terminate the medical treatment, and may assess such reasonable attorney’s fees as a cost upon the party instituting the proceedings to terminate the award of the appeals board.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 663.
Source of truth
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