What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration is dismissed as premature and the matter is returned to the WCJ for further proceedings.
Applicant filed a Petition for Removal regarding a Stipulated Award; the Appeals Board treated it as a petition for reconsideration and dismissed it as premature, returning the matter to the trial level for further proceedings.
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 for reconsideration was premature because the record was insufficient to evaluate applicant's contentions, and the matter should be returned to the WCJ for further proceedings.
From the decision · page 1We have considered the allegations of the petition and the record in this matter. For the reasons discussed below, we will treat applicant's petition as one seeking reconsideration, dismiss reconsideration as premature, and return this matter to the trial level so that applicant's petition can be treated as a Petition to Set Aside.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.