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Serving Injured Van Nuys Workers & Accident Victims

Van Nuys sits at the centre of the San Fernando Valley, where the 405 and the 101 meet and Sepulveda, Victory, Sherman Way, and Van Nuys Boulevard carry heavy traffic across the flat Valley grid. It is also the Valley's civic and legal centre: the Van Nuys Civic Center holds city and county offices and the Superior Court, and the WCAB Van Nuys district office is a few blocks up Van Nuys Boulevard. That is the practical reason this firm is here — the board that hears most Valley workers' compensation cases is a short drive from our door.

Van Nuys Boulevard, Sepulveda, Victory, and Sherman Way are wide, fast arterials that carry commercial traffic through residential and retail blocks, and intersection and left-turn collisions on them are a constant in our caseload. The 405 and the 101 add high-speed freeway crashes, and the industrial streets north of Victory mix delivery trucks and forklifts with ordinary traffic. We pursue the at-fault driver's policy and, because the Valley has a high proportion of uninsured and minimally insured drivers, the underinsured-motorist coverage on your own policy that most people do not realise they carry.

Van Nuys has a genuinely industrial base, which is why workers' compensation is this firm's deepest practice. Van Nuys Airport is one of the busiest general aviation airports in the country and supports a large workforce in aircraft maintenance, ground handling, fuelling, and charter operations — work with real crush, fall, chemical, and hearing-loss exposure. The manufacturing and light-industrial corridor north of Victory, the concentration of auto repair and body shops along Van Nuys Boulevard and Sepulveda, and the warehousing and distribution operations across the area produce machinery injuries, falls, solvent and paint exposure, and the cumulative back and shoulder trauma that comes from years of physical work. Valley Presbyterian Hospital is a major healthcare employer, and the Civic Center concentrates city, county, and court employment — public-sector work where any separate injury claim against the entity runs on a six-month deadline rather than two years.

Valley Presbyterian Hospital on Vanowen Street is the main hospital for Van Nuys and takes most serious collision and workplace injuries in the central Valley, with Northridge Hospital Medical Center and Providence Saint Joseph in Burbank also receiving trauma from the area. Ask for your emergency department records from that first visit and keep a copy — they establish that your injuries date from the incident itself, which is the point an insurer will work hardest to dispute. In a workers' compensation claim your employer's insurer generally directs your treating physician for the first 30 days through its Medical Provider Network. You can name your own doctor in advance by predesignating them in writing before you are injured, and you can request a change after 30 days.

Nordanyan Law handles cases in English, Spanish, and Armenian, with attorneys and staff who speak all three rather than an interpreter line added to a call. In the San Fernando Valley that covers most of the people we represent, and it matters practically: in a workers' compensation case your own account of your pain and limitations drives the medical-legal evaluation that sets your permanent disability rating, and that detail does not survive being relayed through someone else.

Which Workers' Comp Board Hears a Van Nuys Claim

California assigns workers' compensation cases to a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board district office based on the ZIP code where the injury happened. For Van Nuys, that is the WCAB Van Nuys district office.

You almost certainly will not go there. Nordanyan Law files the paperwork, appears at hearings and conferences, and handles depositions on your behalf. Most Van Nuys clients resolve an entire workers' compensation case without ever setting foot in a board office. Office assignments can change, so if you want to confirm yours, the state publishes a ZIP lookup at dir.ca.gov — or call us and we will check it for you.

What To Do in the First 48 Hours in Van Nuys

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   Get medical attention the same day, even if you think you can finish the shift. Back, neck, and shoulder injuries commonly worsen over the following two or three days, and the gap before your first medical record is the most effective argument an insurer has against a claim.

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   Report a work injury to your supervisor in writing — text or email so it carries a timestamp — and ask for a DWC-1 claim form. California allows 30 days under Labor Code § 5400, and your employer must give you that form within one working day of learning about the injury.

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   If your pain built up over months of repetitive work rather than starting with one incident, that is a cumulative trauma claim and it is compensable. Report it as soon as you connect it to your job; the clock generally runs from when you knew or should have known it was work-related.

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   After a collision, call the police and get a report number. Van Nuys is within the City of Los Angeles, so LAPD's Van Nuys Division covers Sepulveda, Victory, Sherman Way, and Van Nuys Boulevard; the CHP handles the 405, the 101, and the 170.

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   Photograph the scene, the machine or hazard, and your injuries before anything is repaired or cleaned up, and get witness names. Then decline to give the other side's insurer a recorded statement until you have spoken to a lawyer — our office is minutes away and the consultation costs nothing.

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