Direct Motion, Inc.; Hanover Insurance Group Worcester, Saul Salceda, Jr. (Deceased); Elizabeth R. Salceda, Guardian Ad Litem and Trustee for Ellen Kate Salceda, A minor and Noylahna Phutsday Sibouriboun, a minor, WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIASAUL SALCEDA, JR. (Deceased); ELIZABETH R. SALCEDA, Guardian Ad Litem and Trustee for ELLEN KA TE SALCEDA, a minor and NOYLAHNA PHUTSDA Y SIBOURIBOUN, a minor,Applicant,vs.DIRECT MOTION, INC.; HANOVER INSURANCE GROUP WORCESTER,Defendants.Case No. ADJ10140589(Riverside District Office)OPINION AND ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION Elizabeth Saleceda, on her own behalf and as Guardian ad Litem and Trustee for Ellen Kate Salceda and Noylahna Phutsady Siboriboun (referred to collectively as “applicant”) seeks reconsideration of the Findings and Order (F&O) issued by a workers’ compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) on August 29, 2017. The F&O found that the injury sustained by Saul Salceda (“deceased” and/or “decedent’) on October 1, 2015 that resulted in his death on the same day did not arise out of or occur in the course of his employment with Direct Motion, Inc. (“defendant’). The F&O ordered that applicant take nothing by way of her claim in this case: Applicant contends that the WCJ erred in finding Saul Salceda’s death non-compensable, arguing that defendant permitted, encouraged and benefitted from the activities the deceased was engaged in at the time of the fatal injury. She denies that the deceased had either abandoned his employment or deviated from his employment duties when he sustained the fatal injury on October 1, 2015. The WCJ has prepared a Report and Recommendation on Petition for Reconsideration (Report), and recommends that we deny applicant’s Petition for Reconsideration (Petition). Defendant has filed an Answer to the Petition urging us to affirm the F&O. We have considered the allegations of the Petition, the contents of the
