What the panel ordered
Petition for removal is dismissed as moot.
Applicant filed a petition for removal in response to a WCJ order setting the matter for trial; the WCJ later took the matter off calendar and set a status conference.
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 removal became moot after the WCJ took the matter off calendar and set a status conference, so the Board dismissed the petition.
From the decision · page 1Accordingly, the petition for removal is now moot, and we will dismiss the petition.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
The WCJ took the matter off calendar and set a status conference after the petition for removal was filed.
Favours Defendant prevailed