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See Gund v. County of Trinity, 2020 Cal. LEXIS 5542 (Aug. 27, 2020)
See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 28.03.
Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law
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