June 2010

is a case in which Armando Balderas, the applicant, was found to be 100% permanently disabled with no basis for apportionment. The case was filed against GTE Corporation and Chartis Insurance. The WCJ found that Balderas sustained industrial injury to his right shoulder, left arm, spine, and both upper extremities while employed as a plant construction installer during the period 1990 through November 2002. The WCJ denied the defendant’s petition for reconsideration and corrected the clerical error in the caption to reflect that the decision applies to only one case number.

In this case, Darryl Pillors was employed as a truck driver and claimed industrial injury to his back and shoulder on November 20, 2008 and psychiatric injury through the period ending December 17, 2008. Penske Truck Leasing Co. and Old Republic Insurance Company requested removal of the March 15, 2010 Order issued by the workers compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) wherein the WCJ ordered the Medical Director to produce a second panel of qualified medical evaluators (QME). The Appeals Board granted the removal, rescinded the WCJ’s decision, and returned the matters to the trial level for further proceedings and decision by the WCJ. The WCJ must determine the admissibility of the first panel QME report and address the remaining

In this case, the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board dismissed the Petition for Reconsideration and denied the Petition for Removal filed by Joel Ramirez. The Board found that the Petition for Reconsideration was not a final order and therefore could not be challenged, and that the Petition for Removal was denied because Ramirez had not shown that the change of venue from Anaheim to San Bernardino would result in ineparable harm or significant prejudice.

This case is about Raymond Sikes appealing a decision made by SBC/Pacific Bell Telephone Co. and Liberty Mutual 29073 Glendale. The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board granted the petition for reconsideration in order to allow sufficient opportunity to further study the factual and legal issues in the case. All further correspondence, objections, motions, requests and communications must be filed with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board.

In this case, Suzanne Singer, the applicant, sought reconsideration of the April 30, 2010 Opinion and Order Granting Reconsideration and Decision After Reconsideration, wherein the Appeals Board affirmed the WCJ’s decision that the applicant did not sustain an industrial injury on October 7, 2004. The applicant argued that the Appeals Board erred in finding that the applicant did not sustain an industrial injury, as she had resumed her special mission at the time she was injured. The petition for reconsideration was dismissed as successive, as the applicant was not newly aggrieved by the April 30, 2010 decision. The applicant’s recourse was to file a writ of review with the appropriate Court of Appeal.