What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration is denied based on the WCJ's findings and report.
Defendant filed a timely verified petition for reconsideration of the WCJ's 1/5/2022 Findings and Award regarding lien claimant's medical-legal service dates and validity of medical-legal evaluations.
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.
Medical treatment / UR / IMRApplicant prevailedpsyche · head · nervous system
The WCJ found that Dr. David Krauss was the primary treating physician and that the medical-legal reports dated 2/21/2019, 10/7/2019, and 12/12/2019 were valid comprehensive medical-legal evaluations requested by applicant's attorney, thus payable by defendant.
From the decision · page 4The undersigned found David Krauss, PhD., of Southern California Mental Health, was the primary treating physician. See lien claimant exhibit 2, letter to Dr. Krauss with cc to defendant dated 1/17/2019. The undersigned found applicant attorney requested Dr. Krauss perform a medical-legal evaluation and write a narrative medical legal report in letter to Dr. Krauss with cc to defendant dated 1/17/2019. See lien claimant exhibit 2.