What the panel ordered
Findings and Order issued on February 2, 2021, rescinded and substituted with new Findings and Order finding lien claimant met burden to show contested claim existed at time services were provided.
Petition for reconsideration of Findings and Order issued by WCJ on February 2, 2021, granted to review whether lien claimant met burden to prove contested claim at time services were provided.
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 Board found that a contested claim existed at the time the copy services were provided, based on the delay letter issued by SCIF and the timing of the Application and subpoenas, meeting the lien claimant's burden of proof.
From the decision · page 1Lien claimant Citywide Scanning Service, Inc. (lien claimant) seeks reconsideration of the Findings and Order (F&O), issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) on February 2, 2021, wherein the WCJ found in pertinent part that lien claimant did not meet its burden of proving that there was a contested claim at the time the services were requested in their NON-IBR medical-legal dispute petition.