What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration is dismissed as untimely.
Applicant filed a Petition for Reconsideration in two documents separately filed on July 9, 2021. The Board treated the two documents as one Petition for Reconsideration.
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 filed after the 25-day statutory deadline, making it untimely and depriving the Board of jurisdiction to consider it.
From the decision · page 2In this case, the WCJ issued the Findings and Order on June 10, 2021. Based on the authority cited above, applicant had until Tuesday, July 6, 2021 to file a timely Petition for Reconsideration. Therefore, the Petition for Reconsideration filed on July 9, 2021 is untimely and must be dismissed.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
The WCJ issued the Findings and Order on June 10, 2021; the applicant had until July 6, 2021 to file a timely Petition for Reconsideration, but filed on July 9, 2021.