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 facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
Applicant first received permanent disability indemnity benefits on September 13, 2006.
Favours Applicant prevailed
This date controls the calculation of monetary benefits owed and the start date for COLAs.
From the decision · page 61. September 13, 2006, the date applicant initially received permanent disability
Favours Applicant prevailed
The rules the panel named
Authorities as the decision cited them, with how this panel applied each one.
Labor Code sections 4650, 4659, 4453, 4658; Brower v. David Jones Construction (2014) 79 Cal.Comp.Cases 550
Permanent disability indemnity rate is two-thirds of the injured worker's average weekly earnings at the time of injury; COLAs commence January 1 after entitlement to permanent disability indemnity begins.