---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 10.211"
title: "20"
number: "10.211"
heading: "What are the employer's responsibilities in COP cases?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/10.211"
---

# §10.211. What are the employer's responsibilities in COP cases?


Once the employer learns of a traumatic injury sustained by an employee, it shall:

- (a) Provide a Form CA-1 and Form CA-16 to authorize medical care in accordance with [§ 10.300](/cfr/20/10.300.md). Failure to do so may mean that OWCP will not uphold any termination of COP by the employer.
- (b) Advise the employee of the right to receive COP, and the need to elect among COP, annual or sick leave or leave without pay, for any period of disability.
- (c) Inform the employee of any decision to controvert COP and/or terminate pay, and the basis for doing so.
- (d) Complete Form CA-1 and transmit it, along with all other available pertinent information, (including the basis for any controversion), to OWCP within 10 working days after receiving the completed form from the employee.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 8102a, 8103, 8145 and 8149; 31 U.S.C. 3716 and 3717; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174, 64 Stat. 1263; Secretary of Labor's Order No. 10-2009, 74 FR 218; Pub. L. 117-263.

### Source

Source: 76 FR 37903, June 28, 2011, unless otherwise noted.