PERMANENTE MEDICAL GROUP, and ATHENS ADMINISTRATORS (Adjusting Agent) | EUREKA UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT; CALIFORNIA INSURANCE GUARANTEE ASSOCIATION on behalf of CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION INSURANCE COMPANY DONNA YEE-SANCHEZ | NATALIE PIATT WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIADONNA YEE-SANCHEZ, Applicant,Vs.PERMANENTE MEDICAL GROUP, and ATHENS ADMINISTRATORS (Adjusting Agent), Defendant(s). Case No. OAK 271713OPINION AND ORDER DISMISSING PETITION FOR REMOVAL–NATALIE PIATT, Applicant,Vs.EUREKA UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT; CALIFORNIA INSURANCE GUARANTEE ASSOCIATION on behalf of ALIFORNIA COMPENSATION INSURANCE COMPANY, in liquidation, Defendant(s). Case No. SAC 304854OPINION AND DECISION AFTER RECONSIDERATIONI.IntroductionA. These two cases present some common issues regarding: (a) what the parties and the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (“WCAB”) can and cannot do before an application for adjudication of claim (“application”) has been filed; and (b) what the pa