What the panel ordered
Petition for reconsideration dismissed as premature because the Appeals Board's remand order was not a final order.
Petition for reconsideration filed by applicant after the Appeals Board rescinded the WCJ's July 21, 2004 decision and remanded the matter for further proceedings.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 Appeals Board's remand order was not a final order, so the petition for reconsideration was premature and properly dismissed.
From the decision · page 321 3] ("a petition seeking review of a [WCAB] order which remands a matter to the trial judge for 22 further proceedings is ordinarily premature").)3 Therefore, we will dismiss applicant's petition for
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
The Appeals Board rescinded the WCJ's July 21, 2004 decision and remanded the matter for further proceedings.