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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied the defendant's petition for reconsideration. The Board adopted the Administrative Law Judge's report, which found that the defendant failed to rebut the reasonableness of the lien claimant's billing. While lien billing alone isn't automatically reasonable, here, the defendant provided no evidence demonstrating unreasonableness. Consequently, the defendant bore the burden of proof to disprove the charges, which it did not satisfy.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied the defendant's petition for reconsideration. The Board adopted the Administrative Law Judge's report, which found that the defendant failed to rebut the reasonableness of the lien claimant's billing. While lien billing alone isn't automatically reasonable, here, the defendant provided no evidence demonstrating unreasonableness. Consequently, the defendant bore the burden of proof to disprove the charges, which it did not satisfy.
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