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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied defendant's petition for reconsideration, finding that the statutory time limit to act on the petition was tolled due to administrative delays in receiving the petition from the district office. Although the defendant claimed to have uploaded a Notice of Hearing into EAMS, this document was not visible to the Board at the time of their review. The Board remanded the case to the Workers' Compensation Administrative Law Judge for a hearing to resolve disputes regarding the notice and its upload into EAMS.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied defendant's petition for reconsideration, finding that the statutory time limit to act on the petition was tolled due to administrative delays in receiving the petition from the district office. Although the defendant claimed to have uploaded a Notice of Hearing into EAMS, this document was not visible to the Board at the time of their review. The Board remanded the case to the Workers' Compensation Administrative Law Judge for a hearing to resolve disputes regarding the notice and its upload into EAMS.
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