What the panel ordered
Order granting reconsideration vacated and Petition for Reconsideration dismissed due to settlement agreement between parties.
Petition for Reconsideration of the decision issued by the WCJ on April 21, 2021, was pending before the Appeals Board and reconsidered.
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 parties settled the issues in the Petition for Reconsideration while the matter was pending, leading to dismissal of the Petition and vacating the order granting reconsideration.
From the decision · page 1It has come to the attention of the Appeals Board that while this matter was pending on reconsideration, the parties entered into a settlement agreement resolving the issues in the Petition for Reconsideration of the decision issued on April 21, 2021. Therefore, we vacate our order granting reconsideration and dismiss the Petition.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.