What the panel ordered
Reconsideration granted; WCJ decision amended to entitle applicant to psychiatric QME panel and to defer catastrophic-injury issue under Lab. Code § 4660.1(c)(2)(B)p. 3
Applicant petition for reconsideration of WCJ Findings of Fact and Orders dated May 3, 2022
What was disputed, and how it came out
Each issue the panel decided, with the reasoning it gave. An outcome is what this panel did on this record — not a rule, and not a prediction.
Liberal discovery policy favors psychiatric panel to develop evidence on direct psychiatric injury, temporary disability, and potential permanent disability rating if catastrophic injury later found
From the decision · page 49. Applicant is entitled to an additional QME panel in the specialty of psychiatry.