WCAB

Filed 12/31/14; pub. order 1/29/15 (see end of opn.)

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

OGDEN ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES B254082

et al., (W.C.A.B. Nos. ADJ4599548, Petitioner, ADJ1414058)

v.

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

APPEALS BOARD and KRISTIAN VON

RITZHOFF,

Respondents.

PROCEEDING to review a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board. Annulled and remanded. Floyd, Skeren & Kelly, Terry L. Smith, Timothy D. Morgan for Petitioner. Kristian Von Ritzhoff, in pro. per., for Respondent. James T. Losee, Department of Industrial Relations, for Respondent Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board. _______________________ The workers’ compensation judge (hereafter WCJ) found respondent Kristian von Ritzhoff (hereafter Ritzhoff) totally permanently disabled. The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (hereafter appeals board) denied the petition for reconsideration and adopted the WCJ’s decision as its own. Ritzhoff obtained this lifetime award even though he refused to subject himself to cross-examination. We annul the appeals board’s decision because the due process right…