What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration is dismissed as untimely.
Applicant filed a Petition for Reconsideration in pro per on September 16, 2022, after a Joint Findings and Award was issued on August 12, 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 petition was filed after the 25-day statutory period for reconsideration had expired, making it untimely and depriving the Appeals Board of jurisdiction to consider it.
From the decision · page 2In this case, the WCJ issued a Joint Findings and Award on August 12, 2022. Based on the authority cited above, applicant had until Tuesday, September 6, 2022, to seek reconsideration in a timely manner. Therefore, the Petition for Reconsideration filed on September 16, 2022 is untimely and will be dismissed.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
The WCJ issued a Joint Findings and Award on August 12, 2022, and the applicant filed the Petition for Reconsideration on September 16, 2022, after the 25-day statutory period had expired.