Mantel

*742 Opinion

By petition for writ of review the petitioning employee seeks an adjudication annulling, vacating and setting aside an opinion and decision of respondent board after reconsideration (involving a complete rehearing), which affirmed a referee’s earlier findings, awards and orders which ordered that applicant take nothing, other than medical-litigation costs on an amount to be adjusted by the parties, by reason of his two applications for compensation. He seeks a definite award of the medical-litigation costs set forth in His petition, and a finding- that he sustained injuries arising out of and occurring in the course of his employment at the respective times alleged in his applications, and he also requests that the matter be remanded to respondent board for the purposes of (1) securing a report of the referee who conducted the rehearing; (2) excluding any material not received in evidence at the rehearing; and (3) requiring the board to state the reasons for granting the reconsideration, the scope of the reconsideration, and the evidence relied upon in granting the reconsideration.

He makes the following contentions: (1) the appeals board in affirming the award of…