What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration and Petition for Removal dismissed as untimely.
Applicant filed a Petition for Reconsideration and a supplemental pleading regarding employment and privacy issues; the WCAB reviewed the petition and the WCJ's report.
What was disputed, and how it came out
Each issue the panel decided, with the reasoning it gave. An outcome is what this panel did on this record — not a rule, and not a prediction.
The petition for reconsideration was filed after the statutory deadline, making it untimely and depriving the Appeals Board of jurisdiction to consider it.
From the decision · page 2In this case, the WCJ issued a January 9, 2021 Minute Order finding employment by UNAC and designated defense counsel to serve it on all parties pursuant to former WCAB Rule 10500.2 Defense counsel served applicant with the January 9, 2021 Minute Order on January 12, 2021. (Proof of Service, 1/12/21, EAMS Doc ID # 35158183.) Pursuant to the authority cited above, applicant had until Monday, February 8, 2021 to file a timely petition. Therefore, the Petition for Reconsideration filed on September 5, 2022 is untimely and will be dismissed. While applicant mentions in the current petition that he filed a prior Petition for Reconsideration, we were not able to locate it.