What the panel ordered
Findings and Award issued on October 14, 2021, rescinded; matter remanded to WCJ to consider stipulations and conduct further proceedings as appropriate.
Petition for reconsideration of the Findings and Award issued by the WCJ on October 14, 2021, was granted for further study and settlement conference.
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.
The parties stipulated to a higher permanent partial disability rating of 37%, superseding the WCJ's original 29% rating, leading to remand for WCJ to consider the stipulation.
From the decision · page 1applicant, petitioned for reconsideration of the Findings and Award issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on October 14, 2021. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant's injury to her wrists, hands and fingers arising out of and in the course of her employment as a legal secretary by defendant, State Compensation Insurance Fund, legally uninsured, during the period February 14, 2017 through February 14, 2018, caused permanent partial disability of 29%.