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Palmdale
✦ Board-Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation Law — State Bar of California ✦
Board-certified specialist fighting for maximum benefits for injured workers.
By Eman Yazdchi, Esq. · Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation Law
Palmdale sits at the center of the Antelope Valley's economic engine. From the classified assembly hangars at Air Force Plant 42 — where Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and Northrop Grumman build next-generation aircraft — to the Amazon fulfillment center off Rancho Vista Boulevard and the construction crews framing new subdivisions east of the 14 Freeway, this city's workforce handles physically demanding, high-risk jobs every day. When those jobs cause injuries, the workers' compensation system is supposed to protect you. In practice, insurance companies fight to minimize every claim.
Our office at 1125 W Avenue M-14 is in the heart of Palmdale — minutes from Plant 42, Palmdale Regional Medical Center, and the commercial corridor along Palmdale Boulevard. We opened here because this is where injured workers are. Our founder, Eman Yazdchi, earned board certification in workers' compensation law from the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization — a credential held by fewer than one percent of California attorneys. That distinction matters when your claim involves a complex aerospace repetitive-stress injury or a disputed construction-site fall.
Whether you assemble aircraft components on Technology Drive, stock shelves at the Antelope Valley Mall, care for patients at Kaiser Permanente Palmdale, or pour concrete along the Avenue P corridor, California law entitles you to full medical care, wage replacement, and compensation for any permanent impairment. We handle every step — from the initial DWC-1 filing to the final settlement check — so you can focus on healing.
California's workers' compensation system, governed by Labor Code sections 3200 through 6002, is a no-fault insurance program. That means you do not need to prove your employer was negligent — only that your injury arose out of and in the course of your employment. Every Palmdale employer, from Lockheed Martin to the corner auto shop on Sierra Highway, is required to carry workers' comp insurance.
You must report your injury to your employer within 30 days. Your employer then has one working day to provide a DWC-1 claim form. Once you submit the completed form, the insurer has 90 days to accept or deny the claim under LC §5402. If they miss that deadline, your injury is presumed compensable — a powerful protection that shifts the burden entirely to the insurance company.
We see a pattern with Palmdale claims: aerospace subcontractors at Plant 42 sometimes pressure workers to use their personal health insurance instead of filing a workers' comp claim. This is illegal. If your injury happened on the job — whether a single incident or years of repetitive assembly work — workers' comp is the correct system, and filing a claim cannot legally result in retaliation.
Injured at work in Palmdale? Call (661) 273-1780
Tap to call →Palmdale claims are heard at the Van Nuys WCAB district office at 6150 Van Nuys Blvd. All hearings, mandatory settlement conferences, and trials for Los Angeles County workers' comp cases are conducted here.
Palmdale Regional Medical Center on 10th Street West provides emergency and occupational injury care. Kaiser Permanente Palmdale on Technology Drive handles many MPN-directed treatments. Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster provides trauma services.
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