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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) imposed a $500 sanction on lien claimant Dr. Thomas Curtis. Dr. Curtis filed an untimely and frivolous Petition for Reconsideration of an Order Approving Compromise and Release (OACR) that did not address his lien. The WCAB found that Dr. Curtis was neither aggrieved by the OACR nor was it a final order as to him, making his petition indisputably without merit and a bad-faith tactic. His attempt to justify the filing as premature rather than untimely lacked a reasonable basis and did not excuse the sanctions.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) imposed a $500 sanction on lien claimant Dr. Thomas Curtis. Dr. Curtis filed an untimely and frivolous Petition for Reconsideration of an Order Approving Compromise and Release (OACR) that did not address his lien. The WCAB found that Dr. Curtis was neither aggrieved by the OACR nor was it a final order as to him, making his petition indisputably without merit and a bad-faith tactic. His attempt to justify the filing as premature rather than untimely lacked a reasonable basis and did not excuse the sanctions.
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