Court Grants Rehearing on Dispute for Reopening of Settlement

California's 2nd District Court of Appeal on Tuesday granted rehearing of a dispute about whether an injured worker should have been allowed to renege on his agreement to a stipulated award for his industrial injury and reopen his claim based on a new report from an agreed medical evaluator increasing his level of disability.Earlier this month, the 2nd DCA ruled that Leopoldo Benavides should have been allowed to reopen his claim because the stipulated award was "inequitable" based on his actual level of disability. The case was Benavides v. WCAB (Specialty Risk Services), No. B251487...