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This case involves applicant Robert James seeking reconsideration of a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) award. The original award found James sustained a permanent spinal injury causing total disability and requiring further medical treatment, and it also awarded attorney fees. James argued the attorney fee percentage was unauthorized and the disability payment rate was too low. However, the WCAB dismissed the petition for reconsideration as untimely. The petition was filed nearly ten years after the original award, far exceeding the jurisdictional 20-day filing deadline.
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This case involves applicant Robert James seeking reconsideration of a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) award. The original award found James sustained a permanent spinal injury causing total disability and requiring further medical treatment, and it also awarded attorney fees. James argued the attorney fee percentage was unauthorized and the disability payment rate was too low. However, the WCAB dismissed the petition for reconsideration as untimely. The petition was filed nearly ten years after the original award, far exceeding the jurisdictional 20-day filing deadline.
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