What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration dismissed by the Appeals Board.
Petition for Reconsideration filed by applicant after dismissal of applications for adjudication of claim with prejudice; WCJ recommended dismissal of petition; Appeals Board reviewed petition and dismissed it as successive and duplicative.
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 dismissed because it was identical to a prior petition for reconsideration on which the applicant did not prevail and no new evidence was presented, making it successive and duplicative.
From the decision · page 5Here, the Petition for Reconsideration is identical to an earlier petition for reconsideration in which petitioner did not prevail. Furthermore, no new evidence was accepted or considered at the time of the Appeals Board's decision on the original petition. Accordingly, the current Petition for Reconsideration must be dismissed as successive and duplicative. We caution applicant against filing any more successive or duplicative petitions for reconsideration. Instead, applicant should