Legal Question in Workers Comp in California

Generally you are supposed to respond in 30 days, but on this petition no WCAB judge would rule without a Mandatory SEttlement Conference then a Trial, so you would need to have the Answer filed prior to the settlement conference. There are no samples for a response of which I am aware. Your Workers Compensation Insurance Carrier has attorneys and their attorney should give you a sample (if you have no insurance, you have much bigger problems). Here is the code section relevant to this petition: https://www.dir.ca.gov/t8/10447.html Here are rules for your answer: https://www.dir.ca.gov/t8/10484.html This is very very complicated and one tiny little oversight or misunderstanding can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars, so this is not 'small claims court' and not a place for a novice.