Mirna Cabada — ADJ11417486

Applicant Mirna Cabada sought removal of a WCJ's November 3, 2021 Order converting her requested Expedited Hearing on out-of-MPN medical treatment to a mandatory settlement conference (MSC). Applicant argued she would suffer prejudice from the delay and that the WCJ should have issued an order enforcing a prior Notice of Intention (NIT) to allow treatment outside defendant's MPN. The Board granted removal but held that the NIT was not self-executing and not binding on defendant because no order followed it, and that no evidentiary record existed to support issuing an order on the treatment issue. The Board affirmed the Order converting to an MSC but amended it to clarify the parties' obligations, and strongly urged the WCJ to convert the upcoming MSC to an expedited hearing and set it sooner given the serious medical-treatment issue.