Valley Pride and Old Republic Insurance Company, administered by Cannon Cochran Management Services, Inc. Laura Medrano-Medina WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIALAURA MEDRANO-MEDINA, Applicant,vs.VALLEY PRIDE and OLD REPUBLIC INSURANCE COMPANY, administered byCANNON COCHRAN MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC., Defendants. Case No. ADJ8092725(Salinas District Office)OPINION AND ORDERS DISMISSING PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION AND DENYING REMOVAL Defendant, Old Republic Insurance, on behalf of its insured, Valley Pride, Inc., has filed a petition for reconsideration from the Findings and Order, issued October 31, 2012, in which a workers’ compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) ordered the Medical Director to issue a replacement Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME) panel “because the medical record in this case indicates that applicant’s symptoms may be a ‘conversion disorder’ which is a psychiatric condition.” The WCJ also found good cause exists to deny applicant’s motion to augment the record. Defendant contests the WCJ’s determination that applicant’s condition requires a new panel QME in psychiatry, asserting that its request for a panel QME in orthopedics, being the first designation of a specialty, should have been honored. Defendant further contends that the WCJ improperly ordered a panel QME in psychiatry based upon his finding that applicant was suffering from a conversion disorder, in the absence of a diagnosis of that condition in the medical records. Applicant has filed an answer to defendant’s petition, and the WCJ has prepared a Report and Recommendation on Petition for Reconsideration. We shall dismiss defendant’s petition for reconsideration as the order at issue here is not a final order for purposes of seeking reconsideration. A petition for reconsideration may only be taken from a “final” order, decision or award. (Labor Code sections 5900(a), 5902, 5903) A “final” order has been , define
