What the panel ordered
The WCAB rescinded the March 26, 2024 Findings of Fact, Orders, and Award and returned the matter to the WCJ for further proceedings consistent with the opinion, including consideration of the Compromise and Release.
Defendant Everest National Insurance Company petitioned for reconsideration of the WCJ's March 26, 2024 Findings of Fact, Orders, and Award. The WCAB granted reconsideration and ordered the matter returned to the WCJ for further proceedings on a Compromise and Release filed by the parties on December 16, 2024.
This docket was decided more than once. Shown here is the latest released decision; we also hold June 17, 2024.
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The WCAB rescinded the prior WCJ decision and returned the matter to the WCJ to consider the Compromise and Release, indicating procedural disposition without ruling on the merits.
From the decision · page 1Defendant, Everest National Insurance Company, petitions for reconsideration of the Findings of Fact, Orders, and Award issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on March 26, 2024. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant, sustained cumulative injury to his lumbar spine, knees, shoulders, hips and respiratory system arising out of and in the course of his employment by Giant Jim Pest Control, Inc. during a period ending on November 1, 2016, resulting in permanent total disability.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
Parties filed a Compromise and Release on December 16, 2024.
Favours neutral
This led the WCAB to rescind the prior WCJ decision and return the matter for further proceedings to consider the Compromise and Release.
From the decision · page 1We granted reconsideration to further study the factual and legal issues presented. Subsequently, the parties participated in a commissioners' settlement conference at our request. On December 16, 2024, the parties filed a Compromise and Release in this matter. In order to expedite review and approval of the Compromise and Release, we will rescind the March 26, 2024 Findings of Fact, Orders, and Award and return this matter to the trial level so that the WCJ can consider the Compromise and Release. The WCJ may conduct such further proceedings as she deems appropriate.
The rules the panel named
Authorities as the decision cited them, with how this panel applied each one.
Labor Code provisions governing reconsideration and compromise
Applied to rescind the prior WCJ decision and return the matter for further proceedings on the Compromise and Release.
From the decision · page 1Defendant, Everest National Insurance Company, petitions for reconsideration of the Findings of Fact, Orders, and Award issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on March 26, 2024. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant, sustained cumulative injury to his lumbar spine, knees, shoulders, hips and respiratory system arising out of and in the course of his employment by Giant Jim Pest Control, Inc. during a period ending on November 1, 2016, resulting in permanent total disability.
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