UNILAB/QUEST DIAGNOSTICS, permissibly self-insured and administered by SEDGWICK CLAIMS MANAGEMENT SERVICES; AMERICAN CASUALTY CO. OF READING, PA, administered by CNA CLAIMSPLUS; and VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS, permissibly self-insured and administered by TRISTAR RISK MANAGEMENT; and ZURICH INSURANCE CO., NINA GOODRICH, WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIANINA GOODRICH, Applicant,vs.UNILAB/QUEST DIAGNOSTICS, permissibly self-insured and administered by SEDGWICK CLAIMS MANAGEMENT SERVICES; AMERICAN CASUALTY CO. OF READING, PA, administered by CNA CLAIMSPLUS; and VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS, permissibly self-insured and administered by TRISTAR RISK MANAGEMENT; and ZURICH INSURANCE CO., Defendants.Case No. ADJ4634338 (MON 02262377)ADJ614711 (MON 0288710)OPINION AND ORDER DENYING RECONSIDERATION In a petition for reconsideration that was filed on July 16, 2009, but did not reach theAppeals Board until October 6, 2009, defendant Zurich Insurance Company (Zurich) seeks reconsideration of the Opinion and Order Granting Reconsideration and Decision After Reconsideration of June 24, 2009, wherein we granted the petition for reconsideration of co- defendant, Sedgwick Claims Management Services (Sedgwick), the third-party administrator for the self-insured employer, Unilab/Quest Diagnostics, of the Arbitration Finding of Facts of April 3, 2009. In that decision, the workers’ compensation arbitrator (arbitrator) found, in essence, that Sedgwick’s petition for contribution towards payments it made for applicant’s workers’ compensation benefits for the admitted industrial injury she sustained to her upper extremities during a period through January 27, 2000, while employed as a phlebotomist by Unilab and by Valley Health Systems (Valley), was not timely filed pursuant to Labor Code section 5500.51 and, 1All further statutory references are to the Labor Code. , therefore, that Sedgwick was not entitled to any money from its co-defendants, Zurich, Valley, through i
