What the panel ordered
Petition for Disqualification dismissed as moot due to reassignment of the WCJ.
Defendant filed a Petition for Disqualification of the WCJ alleging impartiality.
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 dismissed as moot due to the reassignment of the WCJ, rendering the issue of impartiality moot.
From the decision · page 1Following the filing of defendant's petition, and for reasons wholly unrelated to the petition, the WCJ in this matter has been reassigned. Accordingly, the Petition for Disqualification will be dismissed as the issue is now moot.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
The WCJ was reassigned for reasons unrelated to the petition.
Favours Defendant prevailed