San Diego WCAB District Office

This office is the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board's hearing location for San Diego area workers' comp disputes. It is a state hearing office, not a private law office, and Yazdchi Law P.C. does not operate out of it or anywhere else in San Diego County.

The California Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) runs this location and publishes its own current address, phone number, and hours. Because those details can change, confirm anything time sensitive on DWC's San Diego office page before you plan around it.

Source: California Division of Workers' Compensation, San Diego district office page, checked October 14, 2026. That phone number reaches DWC staff, not Yazdchi Law. Our own number is (661) 273-1780, and our contact form reaches us directly.

Which cases go to this office?

A workers' comp case lands at this WCAB office when the injured worker's home, the place of injury, or the worker's attorney's main office falls inside the area DWC assigns to this location. DWC's own ZIP code records route 232 California ZIP codes here, including San Diego and the North County and East County communities listed below.

The actual filing rule comes from California Labor Code section 5501.5, not from a ZIP code lookup by itself. A worker can file an application for adjudication of claim in the county where they live on the filing date, the county where the injury happened (or, for a cumulative injury, where the last harmful exposure occurred), or the county where their attorney keeps a main office, when they have one:

The application for adjudication of claim shall be filed in any of the following locations: (1) In the county where the injured employee or dependent of a deceased employee resides on the date of filing.

This filing rule has not changed since it was added in 1990, so it remains current law. Our guide to Labor Code section 5501.5 and filing venue walks through all three filing options in more depth, and our explainer on what the WCAB is and does gives wider context on how a case moves through the board.

DWC's ZIP code locator is a quick starting point, but DWC itself warns that Disability Evaluation Unit appointments do not always match the office its locator shows for a given ZIP code. Treat the locator as a guide and confirm any specific hearing or appointment location against your own written notice.

Based on DWC's ZIP code listing, the office here serves San Diego and these nearby communities. Our pages for each one explain local filing steps in plain language:

• San Diego
• Carlsbad
• Chula Vista
• El Cajon
• Escondido
• Oceanside
• San Marcos
• Vista

What happens at the San Diego WCAB office?

DWC lists two units at this location: the Disability Evaluation Unit and the Information and Assistance Unit. Workers' compensation judges here hold status conferences, settlement conferences, and trials, and the office runs a monthly injured worker workshop.

The Disability Evaluation Unit (DEU) rates permanent disability by reviewing medical reports of a worker's impairment, for both litigated and non-litigated claims. Judges, injured workers, and claims administrators all rely on a DEU rating to work out permanent disability benefits. The Information and Assistance Unit answers general questions about the claims process and can be reached statewide at 1-800-736-7401.

DWC also holds a free injured worker workshop by Zoom at 3 p.m., in English on the first Friday of each month and in Spanish on the third Friday. The workshop explains claim basics and is not a substitute for advice about your own case.

Can you attend a San Diego WCAB hearing by video or phone?

Yes, for most hearing types. DWC moved status conferences, mandatory settlement conferences, priority conferences, and lien conferences statewide to its CourtCall Video Platform, while trials and some other hearings still happen in person.

Each judge has a separate virtual courtroom, and DWC posts the current access link on its Virtual Courtroom Resources page and on your own hearing notice. Those links, and any phone access codes, change by judge and by hearing, so we do not publish them here. Our guide on how DWC publishes judges' virtual courtroom and conference line details explains where to find the current information and what to have ready before you join.

How do you get to the San Diego office, and is there parking?

The office is at 7575 Metropolitan Drive, Suite 202, San Diego, CA 92108. DWC says free parking is available in front of the building, and its office page links out to driving directions and to San Diego's Metropolitan Transit System for bus and trolley riders.

DWC's own page is the most current source for exact directions, since road and transit details change over time. There is no food or drink service inside the building itself, though DWC notes that a shopping center behind it has food options nearby.

What should you bring to a hearing or a walk-through filing?

Bring the hearing notice or appointment letter DWC sent you, a photo ID, and any paperwork that notice asks for. Dropping off a settlement or petition without a scheduled hearing is called a walk-through filing, and it follows its own timing and paperwork rules.

This office accepts walk-through filings from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and again from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. A case opening settlement submitted as a walk-through must reach the office by noon the court day before it is acted on, under Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, section 10789. An attorney typically handles the paperwork and timing for a walk-through settlement or petition.

Yazdchi Law P.C. is based in Palmdale, not San Diego, and the firm has no office at this WCAB location or anywhere else in San Diego County. If you have a San Diego area workers' comp claim and want help preparing for a hearing here, call (661) 273-1780 or use our contact form. We review each matter individually and cannot say in advance whether a particular case is a fit for representation.

See every California WCAB district office in one place, or go directly to our San Diego workers' comp lawyer page. If a claim anywhere in California was denied, our guide on what to do after a denied workers' comp claim explains the next steps.