Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, Permissibly Self-Insured, Adjusted By Constitution State Services Barbara Wright WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIABARBARA WRIGHT, Applicant,vs.BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO COMPANY, Permissibly Self-Insured, Adjusted By CONSTITUTION STATE SERVICES, Defendant(s).Case No. ADJ1787406 (STK 0157805)OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING RECONSIDERATION, DECISION AFTER RECONSIDERATION, AND NOTICE OF INTENTION TO IMPOSE SANCTIONS AGAINST DEFENDANT’S COUNSEL Defendant seeks reconsideration of the December 7, 2010 Findings and Award and Order, wherein the workers’ compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) found that applicant, who is unrepresented at this time, is entitled to temporary disability indemnity from November 25, 2003, to the present and continuing. He ordered defendant to maintain applicant on temporary disability indemnity until defendant complies with WCAB Rules 10462, 10464, and 10466 (Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, §§ 10462, 10464, 10466).1 Defendant contends the WCJ erred in awarding additional temporary disability indemnity, arguing that the WCAB lacks jurisdiction to award temporary disability indemnity more than five years after the date of injury when applicant had been found permanent and stationary by the agreed medical evaluator (AME), that applicant’s new temporary disability is a result of a “new” body part not included in the original stipulated award or the original timely petition to reopen and that the new body part caused temporary disability only after the five-year mark, and that applicant is not entitled to additional temporary disability indemnity because she has voluntarily taken herself out of the labor force. 1 These rules relate to petitions to terminate temporary disability indemnity. , We have considered the Petition for Reconsideration and applicant’s Answer, and we have reviewed the record in this matter. The WCJ prepared a Report and Recommendation o
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