Mary Ramos — ADJ20567579, ADJ20905066

Applicant Mary Ramos filed an Application for Adjudication on May 7, 2025, alleging a specific back injury on August 22, 2017, which defendant had accepted and administered until recommending denial based on the statute of limitations after counsel appeared. The WCJ found AOE/COE to the back and held that defendant failed to meet its burden of proof on the statute of limitations defense, so the claim was not barred. Defendant sought reconsideration, arguing it did not enter evidence of its section 5401 notices because applicant did not raise defendant's failure to give proper notices at trial. The Board first found the petition timely despite being filed under the wrong case number (ADJ20567579), accepting it under WCAB Rule 10617, and confirmed its action was timely under amended section 5909. The Board granted reconsideration because the record was not sufficiently developed on the statute of limitations issue and deferred a final decision pending further review.