What the panel ordered
Affirmed the WCJ’s Findings and Order with amendment to Finding of Fact 3; removal denied.p. 7
Defendant’s petition for reconsideration of WCJ’s Findings and Order of April 5, 2022; WCAB granted reconsideration to study the issues and issued Opinion and Decision After Reconsideration.
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.
Medical Unit may request additional information under Rule 30(a)(4) but cannot use the request to allow the second party to step ahead in line; applicant never lost her place because she had never been evaluated.
From the decision · page 4- (a) Whether the Medical Unit was entitled to obtain the information it sought in this case as a condition to issuing a Romero panel.
Applicant was first to request a replacement panel; Medical Unit’s request for information merely delayed its determination and did not permit defendant to obtain a panel in its preferred specialty.