24 HOUR FITNESS; INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE STATE OF PENNYSLVANIA; ARROWOOD INDEMNITY COMPANY, LISA LaCROSS, WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIALaCROSS, Applicant,vs.HOUR FITNESS; INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE STATE OF PENNYSLVANIA; ARROWOOD INDEMNITY COMPANY, Defendant(s).Case No. ADJ1064616 (SAC 0296007)OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION AND DECISION AFTER RECONSIDERATION Applicant seeks reconsideration’ of the Findings, Award and Order issued in ADJ253645 by a workers’ compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) on May 29, 2009, wherein the WCJ found that applicant, while employed as a certified ACE exercise instructor during the cumulative period to February 11, 2002, sustained industrial injury to her right knee. The WCJ further found, as relevant here, that the injury caused permanent disability of one percent. In her companion case for a specific injury to her left foot and ankle on August 3, 2000 (ADJ1064616), the WCJ found that applicant had not sustained new and further disability and denied her Petition to Reopen. Previously, the parties had stipulated that applicant’s specific injury to her left foot and ankle caused 25 percent permanent disability with a need for further medical treatment, and an award issued on October 18, 2001. In her Petition for Reconsideration, applicant contends that the WCJ erred in relying on the opinion of Joel W. Renbaum, M.D., defendant’s Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME), to find a separate cumulative injury to applicant’s right knee as a result of kickboxing where Dr. 1Applicant listed both Case Numbers in her Petition for Reconsideration. Though her arguments involve the WCJ’s Findings and Award in Case Number ADJ253645, she stated that she was seeking reconsideration of the Findings and Order in Case Number ADJ1064616, , Renbaum did not describe applicant’s impairments under the American Medical Association Guides (AMA) Guides. Applicant contends that the WCJ erroneou
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