Yavitch v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

FEINERMAN, P. J.

Petitioners Morris Yavitch and Continental Insurance Company seek an order compelling the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (Board or WCAB) to annul its stay of WCAB proceedings pending the outcome of Los Angeles Superior Court number C-344346, to annul the rescission of the trial judge’s findings and order of June 29, 1982, and thereafter to determine the petition for reconsideration on its merits. We treat the petition as a petition for writ of mandate. As we shall explain, petitioners are entitled to relief.

Facts

Respondent/applicant Danica Hodges filed a workers’…