Department of Employment Development v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

EVANS, J.

State of California, Employment Development Department (petitioner), seeks review of an order by the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (Board), denying its petition for reconsideration of a prior order approving a compromise and release proposed by the worker James J. Griffin and State Compensation Insurance Fund (Fund), the employer’s compensation insurance carrier. Reconsideration was urged on the ground that the Board, in reducing petitioner’s liens for unemployment compensation disability payments made to the respondent Griffin, improperly applied the Baird formula1 to…