CITY OF STOCKTON, Permissibly Self- Insured, Adjusted By YORK INSURANCE SERVICES GROUP, LINDA SEGOVIA, WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIALINDA SEGOVIA, Applicant,vs.CITY OF STOCKTON, Permissibly Self- Insured, Adjusted By YORK INSURANCE SERVICES GROUP, Defendant.Case No. ADJ2594700 (OAK 0308925)OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING RECONSIDERATION AND DECISION AFTER RECONSIDERATION Defendant seeks reconsideration of a workers’ compensation administrative law judge’s (WCJ) Findings & Award of August 25, 2009, wherein it was found that applicant sustained injury to her right hip as a compensable consequence of her December 1, 2003 left hip injury, and that “[t]he injured worker is entitled to further medical treatment which is reasonable and necessary tocure or relieve the effects of the industrial injury including the proposed surgery to the torn labrum above the right hip.” Previously in this case, in a Findings, Award & Order of December 17, 2007, it was found that, while employed as a police officer on December 1, 2003, applicant sustained industrial injury to her spine, bilateral upper extremities, bilateral lower extremities and head1, causing permanent total (100%) disability. Defendant contends that the WCJ erred in finding that applicant sustained compensable injury to the right hip. Alternatively, defendant contends that the WCJ erred in finding the proposed right hip surgery medically necessary. Defendant has filed a number of exhibits to its petition. One of the exhibits is a report that is already part of the evidentiary record, and is therefore attached in violation of Appeals Board Rule 10842 (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 8, § 10842.) The other documents attached were not part of the evidentiary record, and there is no discussion of 1Despite not being listed in the December 17, 2007 decision, it appears uncontested that the prior decision contemplated industrial injury to the left hip but not to the right hip. , why this evidenc
