Natividad Solis Garcia — ADJ12329091

Defendant filed a combined Petition for Reconsideration and Petition for Removal challenging the WCJ's July 7, 2021 Minute Order, which continued the matter for another mandatory settlement conference (MSC) on August 10, 2021 to address the issue of arbitration. The WCAB held that the Minute Order was an intermediate procedural order that did not determine any substantive right or liability nor resolve a threshold issue, and was therefore not a 'final' order subject to reconsideration. The Board likewise dismissed the petition to the extent it sought removal, finding no non-final order subject to removal had issued and that the defendant was not aggrieved. Both petitions were dismissed.