What the panel ordered
The Board grants reconsideration, rescinds the Order Dismissing Case, and returns the matter to the WCJ for further proceedings consistent with the decision.
Applicant seeks reconsideration of the Order Dismissing Case issued by the WCJ on December 8, 2020, which dismissed the case without prejudice due to no good cause or objection filed to the Notice of Intention to Dismiss Case.
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 Board found the record insufficient to evaluate the Petition for Reconsideration or the WCJ's Order due to lack of admitted evidence, issues submitted for decision, and stipulations or admissions of the parties, thus granting reconsideration and returning the matter for further proceedings.
From the decision · page 3DISCUSSION A WCJ is required to "make and file findings upon all facts involved in the controversy and an award, order, or decision stating the determination as to the rights of the parties. Together with the findings, decision, order or award there shall be served upon all the parties to the proceedings a summary of the evidence received and relied upon and the reasons or grounds upon which the determination was made." (Lab. Code, § 5313; see also Blackledge v. Bank of America, ACE American Insurance Company (2010) 75 Cal.Comp.Cases 613, 621-22 [2010 Cal. Wrk. Comp. LEXIS 74] (Appeals Board en banc).) As required by section 5313 and explained in Hamilton v. Lockheed Corporation (2001) 66 Cal.Comp.Cases 473, 475 [2001 Cal. Wrk. Comp. LEXIS 4947] (Appeals Board en banc), "the WCJ is charged with the responsibility of referring to the evidence in the opinion on decision, and of clearly designating the evidence that forms the basis of the decision." The WCJ's opinion on decision "enables the parties, and the Board if reconsideration is sought, to ascertain the basis for the decision, and makes the right of seeking reconsideration more meaningful." (Citation omitted.) (Id. at p. 476.) The WCJ's decision "must be based on admitted evidence in the record." (Hamilton, supra, at p.