What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration denied by the Appeals Board on June 1, 2026.
Applicant filed a Petition for Reconsideration on March 16, 2026, challenging the Findings and Orders issued by the WCJ on March 5, 2026, which found no good cause to disqualify the regularly appointed physician and no injury arising out of employment.
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.
AOE/COEDefendant prevailedrespiratory · heavy metal poisoning · internal · sleep
Applicant failed to prove industrial causation by a preponderance of the evidence; the evidence was speculative and inconsistent.
From the decision · page 13vehicle's air-conditioning in December 2020 and January 2021. (See MOH/SOE (12-17-2025) supra at 5:11-14; 8:10-11; 8:25-9:3.) The timeline of events as relayed by the applicant is inconsistent. Based on the totality of the evidence before the Court, and without any evidence offered in support of applicant's suspicion, it is found that applicant did not sustain his burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that he sustained an injury arising out of and in the course of hi[s] employment with Northup Grumman. (Opinion on Decision, March 5, 2026, at pp. 1-10, EAMS Doc ID numbers omitted.) Accordingly, we deny the Petition for Reconsideration.