REESE SALES COMPANY, STATE COMPENSATION INSURANCE FUND, and CALIFORNIA INSURANCE GUARANTEE ASSOCIATION, with CAMBRIDGE INTEGRATED SERVICES GROUP, its servicing facility, for FREMONT COMPENSATION, in liquidation, DONALD VANCE, WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIADONALD VANCE, Applicant,vs.REESE SALES COMPANY, STATE COMPENSATION INSURANCE FUND, and CALIFORNIA INSURANCE GUARANTEE ASSOCIATION, with CAMBRIDGE INTEGRATED SERVICES GROUP, its servicing facility, for FREMONT COMPENSATION, in liquidation, Defendant(s).Case No. ADJ2523033 (BAK 0130997)ADJ4314253 (BAK 0130998)OPINION AND ORDERS DENYING PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION, AND RETURNING MATTER TO WCJ FOR REFERRAL TO NEW ARBITRATOR Defendant, State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF), seeks reconsideration of the Findings of Fact with Opinion on Decision of December 11, 2008, in which the workers’ compensation judge (WCJ) found that on June 24, 1996, applicant, while employed by Reese Sales Company (“Reese”), sustained industrial injury to his bilateral upper extremities, that at the time of this injury, Reese was insured by Fremont Compensation (“Fremont”), in liquidation and adjusted by California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA), that applicant, while employed by Reese during the period ending March 26, 1999, sustained industrial injury to his left shoulder, that from July 1, 1996 to July 1, 1998 Reese was insured by SCIF and by Fremont, in liquidation and adjusted by CIGA, that applicant’s case-in-chief was resolved by joint Compromise and Release (C&R), that Fremont entered liquidation on July 2, 2003, that the petition for contribution filed by CIGA on August 15, 2003 was timely, that “the petition for contribution was jointly submitted for decision to James Bass, the agreed arbitrator by defendant CIGA and SCIF on or before June 1, 2006,” that the Arbitration Award dated March 25, 2008 “was not filed with the , Appeals Board district office with venue as required” and was no
