What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration denied.
Defendant petitioned for reconsideration of the WCJ's order approving Compromise and Release, challenging the reasonableness of the attorney fee.
This docket was decided more than once. Shown here is the latest released decision; we also hold October 24, 2022.
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 attorney fee was agreed to by the parties in a Compromise and Release, and there was no good cause shown to set aside the stipulation or the approved award.
From the decision · page 3Attorney fees are discretionary. (Lab. Code, § 5710.) Based on our review of the record we are persuaded that the WCJ properly acted within his discretion to approve the C&R terms as agreed to by the parties.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.