Della’s Cleaners and Illinois Midwest Insurance Agency On Behalf Of Star Insurance Company Tomasa Romero WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIATOMASA ROMERO, Applicant,vs.DELLA’S CLEANERS and ILLINOIS MIDWEST INSURANCE AGENGY ON BEHALF OF STAR INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendants.Case No. ADJ7628870 (Los Angeles District Office)OPINION AND ORDERS DISMISSING PETITIONS FOR RECONSIDERATION; GRANTING REMOVAL ON APPEALS BOARD MOTION; DECISION AFTER REMOVAL Lien claimants Transtar Translation, Dara Saghafi, M.D., and Medishock, Inc., (collectively, lien claimants) have each filed petitions for reconsideration of Orders Dismissing Liens (Orders) issued by workers’ compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) Glass on January 17, 2013 after they failed to appear at the continued lien conference. Lien claimants contend in pertinent part that each of them timely objected to the notices of intention to dismiss (NITs) so that the liens should not have been dismissed. We have received an answer from defendants Della’s Cleaners and Illinois Midwest on behalf of Star Insurance Company (collectively, defendant). We received a Report and Recommendation (Report) from the WCJ in response to lien claimants’ petitions, which recommends that they be denied. On March 13, 2013, WCJ Carrero issued a Findings and Order (F&O) following lien trial on the merits on January 15, 2013, which in pertinent part, disallowed lien claimants’ liens. We have reviewed the record and considered the allegations of the petitions for reconsideration and the answer and the contents of the Report. Based on our review of the record, for the reasons stated below, we will dismiss lien claimants’ petitions for reconsideration, grant removal on our own motion, rescind the Orders, rescind the F&O, and return the matter to WCJ Carrero for a new decision from which any aggrieved party may timely seek reconsideration. , I. A continued lien
