American Psychometric Consultants, Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

LILLIE, P. J.

In each of the three workers’ compensation cases before the court, the workers’ compensation judge (WCJ) granted a request by an employer/carrier for restitution of medical-legal fees paid by the employer/ carrier more than two years earlier to a medical lien claimant. In each case the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (Board) upheld the restitution order. We annul the orders.

After the several petitions for review of these orders were filed in this court, we asked the Board to specify the statutory or other authority upon which it relied in approving restitution in one…