Legal Question in Workers Comp in California

If I correctly understand your situation, the answer is no. I assume you entered into a compromise and release as opposed to merely a stipulation as to what PD there was. etc. Your time off from 3/07 was either a new injury or from the original cumulative trauma; I suspect it is from the cumulative trauma. If it was a new injury, you must file a claim within one year of the injury or the last date of receiving any WC benefits for that injury. You are saying that they rejected the claim and paid no benefits to you, so more than a year has passed and you aer barred. If the problems are from the original injury, then the settlement should have included it, or you failed to raise it and waived it, or it was just a continuation of inability to do that work with that inability occurring after you had become permanent and stationary and not entitled to further temporary disability payments.

If you previously had an attorney representing you, speak to that attorney. But I would not be hopeful as to what they will say.