What the panel ordered
Petition for reconsideration dismissed.
Petition for reconsideration filed by the Acting Director of Industrial Relations, John M. Rea, as administrator of the Uninsured Employers Fund, seeking reconsideration of the en banc Opinion and Decision After Reconsideration issued by the Appeals Board on December 18, 2003.
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.
Petition for reconsideration dismissed because petitioner was not aggrieved by the final order and the petition challenged non-final procedural announcements, and was successive to a prior petition.
From the decision · page 124 In its petition for reconsideration, UEF expressly states that it "does not contest" the
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
UEF did not contest the correct legal identity of the employer as determined by the WCJ and Appeals Board.