May 2011

This case involves a dispute between Rubin Marble & Granite, Inc. and California Insurance Company over the injury of Omar Vargas, a marble setter. The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board granted reconsideration, rescinded the March 9, 2011 Findings and Award, and substituted it with a new Findings and Award deferring the issues of temporary disability and attorney fees. The Board also amended the average weekly wage and the temporary disability indemnity rate to $1,117.32 and $744.88, respectively. The matter was returned to the trial level for further proceedings and decision by the WCJ.

This case involves a petition for reconsideration filed by both the applicant and the defendant in a workers’ compensation case in California. The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board granted the petition for reconsideration in order to allow for further study of the factual and legal issues in the case. All further correspondence, objections, motions, requests and communications were to be filed with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board.

Wide Awake Developers; State Compensation Insurance Fund Vicente Oseguera WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIAVICENTE OSEGUERA, Applicant,vs.WIDE AWAKE DEVELOPERS; STATE COMPENSATION INSURANCE FUND, Defendant(s).Case Nos. AJIJ-537573 (MON 0347052)OPINION AND DECISION AFTER RECONSIDERATION            Defendant seeks reconsideration of the Findings and Award and Order (FAO) issued in this case on February 10, 2011, wherein the workers’ compensation administrative …

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This case involves a Petition for Reconsideration filed by Chang Hyun Kim against System Carwash, LLC and Guard Insurance Group. The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board denied the Petition for Reconsideration, citing reasons stated in the report of the workers’ compensation administrative law judge. Service was made by mail on the persons listed at their addresses as shown on the current official address record.

This case involves a dispute between Hamid Khazaeli, Spedia.com Inc. and Sysmaster Corp., and Great American Insurance Company. Khazaeli filed a petition for reconsideration of the panel’s earlier March 16, 2011 Opinion and Orders Denying Petitions for Disqualification and Removal, which was denied. He also filed a petition to disqualify Appeals Board Commissioners James Cuneo, Ronnie Caplane and Frank Brass, and a Second Petition for Disqualification and Removal of the Presiding Workers’ Compensation Administrative Law Judge Fudem, both of which were dismissed. The cases were returned to the trial level for further proceedings and decisions by a workers’ compensation administrative law judge as appropriate.