What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration denied.
Defendant sought reconsideration of the Findings of Fact issued by the WCJ on August 27, 2024; the WCJ filed a Report and Recommendation on Petition for Reconsideration recommending denial; the WCAB panel denied the petition on November 25, 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 Appeals Board found the petition was timely filed and gave great weight to the WCJ's credibility determinations, denying the petition.
From the decision · page 1Defendant seeks reconsideration of the Findings of Fact (Findings) issued on August 27, 2024, by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ). The WCJ found, in pertinent part, that applicant sustained injury to the lumbar spine on December 29, 2019, and that applicant was employed by defendant at the time of injury.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.