What the panel ordered
Vacated prior grant of reconsideration and dismissed the Petition for Reconsideration for lack of a final order, decision, or award in the record.
Petition for Reconsideration filed by applicant in pro per on September 22, 2022, seeking reimbursement for self-incurred medical bills; record lacked a final order, decision, or award by a WCJ, leading to dismissal of the 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 petition for reconsideration was dismissed because it was not filed in response to a final order, decision, or award, as required by Labor Code section 5900(a) and related case law.
From the decision · page 1Applicant in pro per, filed a Petition for Reconsideration on September 22, 2022. In the Petition, it appears that applicant seeks reimbursement for the cost of self-incurred medical bills as a result of his industrial injuries.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.