What the panel ordered
Findings and Award of March 24, 2004, adopted and affirmed except Findings of Fact Nos. 14 and 15 and the Award in its entirety are stricken; section 5814 penalty against CIGA rescinded.
Petition for reconsideration granted by the Appeals Board en banc to review the Findings and Award issued by the WCJ on March 24, 2004.
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 Appeals Board en banc concluded that the amended Insurance Code section 1063.1(c)(8), effective January 1, 2004, excludes CIGA's liability for section 5814 penalties for unreasonable delay by the insolvent insurer Fremont for awards issued on or after that date.
From the decision · page 28 Based on our review of the relevant statutory and case law, we conclude that section 1063.1(c)(8),
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.