What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration/Removal is denied.
Petition for Reconsideration/Removal of WCJ decision including threshold findings of employment and injury AOE/COE; Board reviewed WCJ's report and denied petition.
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 WCJ's decision included threshold findings making it a final order subject to reconsideration, but the petition only challenged an interlocutory discovery order. The Board found no significant prejudice or irreparable harm and that reconsideration would be an adequate remedy, so removal was not warranted.
From the decision · page 3Here, the WCJ's decision includes a finding regarding threshold issues of employment and injury arising out of and occurring in the course of employment (AOE/COE). Accordingly, the WCJ's decision is a final order subject to reconsideration rather than removal.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.