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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board dismissed a petition for reconsideration because it was filed from a non-final order. California law only permits reconsideration of "final" orders that determine substantive rights or threshold issues. The original order in this case, a Notice of Intention to Dismiss by a non-physician lien claimant, was an interlocutory procedural decision and thus not appealable. The Board will return the matter to the trial level for the WCJ to address the petition as an objection to the non-final order.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board dismissed a petition for reconsideration because it was filed from a non-final order. California law only permits reconsideration of "final" orders that determine substantive rights or threshold issues. The original order in this case, a Notice of Intention to Dismiss by a non-physician lien claimant, was an interlocutory procedural decision and thus not appealable. The Board will return the matter to the trial level for the WCJ to address the petition as an objection to the non-final order.
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