What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration dismissed as untimely and unverified.
Petition for Reconsideration filed March 20, 2025, challenging WCJ Findings of Fact issued December 13, 2024; petition dismissed as untimely and unverified.
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 was filed on March 20, 2025, after the January 7, 2025 deadline and was unverified, thus untimely and unverified, requiring dismissal.
From the decision · page 3II. There are 20 days allowed within which to file a petition for reconsideration from a "final" decision. (Lab. Code, § 5900(a), 5903.) This time is extended by 5 calendar days if service is made to an address within California. (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 8, § 10605(a)(1).) This time limit is jurisdictional and, therefore, the Appeals Board has no authority to consider or act upon an untimely petition for reconsideration. (Maranian v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (2000) 81 Cal.App.4th 1068, 1076 [65 Cal.Comp.Cases 650]; Rymer v. Hagler (1989) 211 Cal.App.3d 1171, 1182; Scott v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (1981) 122 Cal.App.3d 979, 984 [46 Cal.Comp.Cases 1008]; U.S. Pipe & Foundry Co. v. Industrial Acc. Com. (Hinojoza) (1962) 201 Cal.App.2d 545, 549 [27 Cal.Comp.Cases 73].) In this case, the WCJ issued the Findings of Fact on December 13, 2024 and all of the parties served were located in California. Based on the authority cited above, petitioner had until January 7, 2025 to seek reconsideration on a timely basis. Therefore, the Petition for Reconsideration filed on March 20, 2025 is untimely and will be dismissed. We also note that section 5902 requires that a petition for reconsideration be verified. (Lab. Code, § 5902; see also Cal. Code Regs., tit. 8, § 10510(d).) In Lucena v.