Southern California Edison Granting Petition For Permissibly Self-Insured Jeffrey McKenny, WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIAJEFFREY MCKENNY,Applicant,vs.SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON Permissibly Self-Insured,Defendant.Case Nos. ADJ7904327ADJ7850534(Van Nuys District Office)OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION AND DECISION AFTER RECONSIDERATION Applicant seeks reconsideration of the February 2, 2017 Findings of Fact and Order issued by the workers’ compensation administrative law judge (WCJ). Therein, the WCJ found that applicant sustained admitted industrial injury to his lumbar spine while employed as a lineman on August 31, 1995 (Case No, ADJ78550534) and during the period from October 1, 1980 through March 7, 2011 (Case No. ADJ7850534), with the compensability of other alleged body parts deferred. The WCJ further found that “[t]reatment requests from applicant’s secondary treating physician in psychology, Marcia Lamm, Ph.D., relates to a claimed psychiatric injury that has not yet been determined, by stipulation or adjudication, to be compensable pursuant to [Labor Code section] 4062.” Based on these findings, the WCJ issued an Order stating that “there is no jurisdiction to determine whether applicant’s claim to entitlement to treatment in the form of home care assistance evaluation, and medical/personal transportation, requested by applicant’s secondary treating psychologist, is reasonable and necessary, pending either a stipulation or adjudication that the psychiatric component of applicant’s claim(s) are compensable.” The WCJ also ordered this matter off calendar. In his Petition for Reconsideration, applicant contends that (1) the WCJ erred in failing to award medical treatment pursuant to the utilization review (UR) denial of August 18, 2016 where the judge found that the utilization review denial was untimely communicated to the treating physician, Dr. Lamm; (2) the WCJ erred in violating his righ
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