Uc Santa Barbara, Permissibly Self-Insured Ramon Leon WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIARAMON LEON, Applicant,vs.UC SANTA BARBARA, Permissibly Self-Insured, Defendants.Case No. ADJ4242850; ADJ1997616OPINION AND ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION Applicant, newly aggrieved, seeks reconsideration of our May 24, 2010 Opinion and Order Granting Reconsideration and Decision After Reconsideration. Therein and at defendant’s request, we granted reconsideration of the March 10, 2010 Joint Findings of Fact and Award issued by the workers’ compensation administrative law judge (WCJ), who found that “lajpplicant is in need of further medical treatment to cure or relieve from the effects of the subject industrial injuries, including a new back brace and TENS unit, for which authorization was requested by Dr. Hutchinson in his PR-2jrcport dated [December 10. 2009|;” and that applicant’s attorney has ‘Tendered valuable legal sendees in this matter, which is of more than average complexity, warranting a fee calculated at 15% of the amount of Further Medical Treatment awarded herein.’’1 Defendant contended that the WCJ erred in awarding said medical treatment for lack of substantial medical evidence and in awarding an attorney fee for lack of a legal basis for such an attorney fee. With regard to the issue of applicant’s entitlement to medical treatment, wc affirmed the WCJ. However, with regard to the issue of attorney fees, we reversed 1 Previously, a January 12, 2006 Joint Findings and Award issued providing that applicant while employed as a laborer on October 4, 2001 (Case No. ADJ19976I6/GOL0093209) and August 4, 2002 (Case No. ADJ4242K50/GOL0093305). by the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), sustained industrial injury to his neck and low back causing 4(H4% permanent disability and need for further medical treatment. , the WCJ rescinding the award of attorney fees. Il is from this Decision that applicant seeks reconsiderat
