What the panel ordered
Petition for reconsideration granted; final decision deferred pending further review of merits and entire record.
Defendant petitioned for reconsideration of the WCJ's Findings of Fact and Award issued August 20, 2024; the WCAB granted the petition and deferred final decision pending further review.
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.
Permanent total disabilityRemandedbrain · head · lumbar spine · chest · thoracic cavity · right rib · cardiovascular system · vestibular system · respiratory system · auditory system · visual system · psychiatric system
From the decision · page 1Defendant has petitioned for reconsideration of the Findings of Fact and Award (F&A) issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on August 20, 2024. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant, while employed on June 19, 2017 as a roofer by defendant Luke Roofing, Inc., sustained injury arising out of and in the course of his employment to his brain, head, lumbar spine, chest, thoracic cavity, right rib, cardiovascular system (in the form of hypertension), vestibular system, respiratory system, auditory system (in the form of tinnitus), visual system (in the form of light sensitivity and low vision), and psychiatric system, but did not sustain an industrial injury to his cervical spine and endocrine system (in the form of diabetes).