RABOBANK, N.A., Administered By CHUBB MASSOUD KAABINEJADIAN, WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIAMASSOUD KAABINEJADIAN, Applicant,vs.RABOBANK, N.A., Administered By CHUBB, Defendants.Case No. ADJ2511551 (SBR 0334329)OPINION AND ORDER DISMISSING PETITIONS FOR RECONSIDERATION AND DENYING PETITIONS FOR REMOVAL Defendant Rabobank and its carrier Chubb, separately represented by counsel, have each filed petitions for reconsideration and removal with regard to three orders of a workers’ compensation administrative law judge (“WCJ”): a Discovery Order regarding production of documents issued on November 18, 2008, an order allowing the applicant to be evaluated by a panel qualified medical evaluator issued on November 21, 2008, and another Discovery Order issued on December 10, 2008. Chubb filed its petition for reconsideration on December 18, 2008, and Rabobank filed a separate petition for reconsideration on December 22, 2008. In this matter, applicant, who is representing himself, has filed an application for adjudication of claim wherein he alleges that while employed as a senior vice president/credit administrator on “April, May, June, [and] July” of an unspecified year, he sustained industrial injury in the form of emotional stress, mental anguish, and depression. Defendants have filed similar petitions for reconsideration where they contend, in essence, that the WCJ erred in allowing discovery to the applicant pursuant to the orders of November 18, 2008, November 21, 2008, and December 10, 2008. We have received an answer from the applicant, and the WCJ has filed a Report and Recommendation on Petition for Reconsideration/Removal. , We will dismiss the defendants’ petitions for reconsideration because they are not taken from a final order subject to reconsideration, and because they are untimely with regard to the orders of November 18, 2008 and November 21, 2008. As far as the defendants’ petition for removal pu
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