Riverside WCAB District Office

This district office is where DWC hears workers' compensation cases for Riverside and the surrounding area.

DWC runs this location as one of 23 WCAB district offices across California. Everything below is taken from the DWC's own Riverside office page, last checked October 14, 2026.

DWC also runs a ZIP code locator that points visitors toward a likely office. It is a convenience, not a ruling, on where your case belongs; the next section covers the actual rule.

Which cases go to the Riverside WCAB district office?

Most Riverside and Riverside County area claims land here because of how DWC's ZIP code list is built, though the ZIP code itself is not what decides venue.

Venue instead runs through Labor Code section 5501.5. That statute gives an injured worker three places to file. One is the county where they lived on the day they filed the claim. Another is the county where the injury happened, or, for a cumulative injury, where the last harmful exposure occurred. A worker with an attorney has a third option: the county of that attorney's main office. DWC's ZIP list only approximates how filings tend to sort by location; it does not change the statute.

Going by that ZIP list, the cities below are usually routed to this office:

• Riverside
• Banning
• Beaumont
• Canyon Lake
• Cathedral City
• Corona
• Eastvale
• Hemet
• Highgrove
• Indio
• Jurupa Valley
• La Quinta
• Lake Elsinore
• Lake Mathews
• Mead Valley
• Menifee
• Moreno Valley
• Murrieta
• Norco
• Palm Desert
• Palm Springs
• Perris
• Rancho Mirage
• San Jacinto
• Twentynine Palms

Live or got hurt somewhere not on this list? Run your ZIP code through the locator above, or ask your attorney which office actually has your file.

What happens at this office?

Hearings here resolve disputes over medical treatment, wage replacement, and other workers' compensation issues, and the building also houses two DWC support units.

Besides its courtrooms, the Riverside office houses the Disability Evaluation Unit and the Information and Assistance Unit. DWC also lists an injured worker workshop held over Zoom at 3 p.m., in English on the first Friday of the month and in Spanish on the third Friday, current as of the date checked above. Workshop days can shift, so confirm the current schedule on the official page rather than relying on this page alone.

Can you attend a hearing by phone or video?

Several common hearing types now run on a video platform instead of the old phone line, though trials still happen in person.

DWC retired its old conference-line phone system for several hearing types. Status conferences, mandatory settlement conferences, priority conferences, and lien conferences now run on the CourtCall Video Platform instead. Trials, lien trials, and expedited hearings were kept in person and are not part of that shift. Every judge at this office has a virtual courtroom on the platform, and DWC posts the sign-in details for it on its own website and on the notice mailed for your hearing, not anywhere else. Treat any phone number or access code from another source as unreliable, since DWC can change how the virtual system works.

How do you get there and park?

The office sits in downtown Riverside, reachable by Metrolink, local bus, or car, with metered and lot parking nearby.

Metrolink's Riverside Line stops at the Riverside Downtown station, roughly a mile from the building. Riverside Transit Agency buses also serve downtown, including Route 50, which DWC calls the "Jury Trolley." Drivers will find curbside meters and city-run lots and garages nearby. DWC specifically points to a small lot at the University Avenue and Main Street crosswalk. It also lists a parking garage on Market Street, between University and Mission Inn Boulevard, where the first 90 minutes are free. Once inside, expect a security checkpoint where staff check photo identification, so budget a few extra minutes before your hearing.

What should you bring?

A photo ID and your hearing notice cover the basics, and arriving once the lobby opens avoids a rushed start.

DWC opens the Riverside lobby at 8:00 a.m., five days a week except holidays, and the clerk's office on the 3rd floor is where filings get date stamped. Bring a government-issued photo ID along with whatever notice or letter brought you in. DWC's guidance also says children should not be brought to court. If your own filing needs a walk-through instead of a mailed submission, the office takes those Monday through Friday, between 8:00 and 11:00 in the morning and 1:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon.

Nothing on this page substitutes for your own hearing notice. If it lists a different date, time, or video link than what is described above, follow the notice; office details can change after this page was last checked.

Yazdchi Law P.C. practices from Palmdale and takes on California workers' compensation matters statewide, including claims venued in Riverside. The firm keeps no office inside, or near, the Riverside WCAB building itself. To ask whether the firm can look at your case, call (661) 273-1780 or send details through the contact form; every matter gets reviewed on its own facts.

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