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The Appeals Board denied the defendant's petition for reconsideration of an order approving a $225,883.23 Compromise and Release (C&R) settlement. The defendant argued the C&R was procedurally defective and based on a mutual mistake regarding permanent disability advances. However, the C&R explicitly did not include a credit for these advances, and the inclusion of a Medicare set-aside made such a credit unlikely to have been agreed upon by the applicant. Therefore, the Board found no basis for reconsideration.
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The Appeals Board denied the defendant's petition for reconsideration of an order approving a $225,883.23 Compromise and Release (C&R) settlement. The defendant argued the C&R was procedurally defective and based on a mutual mistake regarding permanent disability advances. However, the C&R explicitly did not include a credit for these advances, and the inclusion of a Medicare set-aside made such a credit unlikely to have been agreed upon by the applicant. Therefore, the Board found no basis for reconsideration.
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