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Effective Jan 1, 1994Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 1242, Sec. 41. Effective January 1, 1994.
- (a) The workers’ compensation referee or appeals board may order a party, the party’s attorney, or both, to pay any reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees and costs, incurred by another party as a result of bad-faith actions or tactics that are frivolous or solely intended to cause unnecessary delay. In addition, a workers’ compensation referee or the appeals board, in its sole discretion, may order additional sanctions not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) to be transmitted to the General Fund.
- (b) The determination of sanctions shall be made after written application by the party seeking sanctions or upon the appeal board’s own motion.
- (c) This section shall apply to all applications for adjudication that are filed on or after January 1, 1994.