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The applicant settled her workers' compensation claims for $$95,000, releasing the employer from future medical care and declining vocational rehabilitation. She later attempted to set aside the declination of vocational rehabilitation, but her petition was deemed untimely as it was filed more than five years after her injury. The Board dismissed her subsequent petitions for reconsideration because successive petitions are improper and her avenues for appeal before the Board are exhausted.
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The applicant settled her workers' compensation claims for $$95,000, releasing the employer from future medical care and declining vocational rehabilitation. She later attempted to set aside the declination of vocational rehabilitation, but her petition was deemed untimely as it was filed more than five years after her injury. The Board dismissed her subsequent petitions for reconsideration because successive petitions are improper and her avenues for appeal before the Board are exhausted.
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