What the panel ordered
Findings and Award issued April 13, 2021, affirmed; Compromise and Release filed August 5, 2021, approved.
Petition for reconsideration filed by applicant after WCJ Findings and Award issued April 13, 2021; WCJ recommended denial of reconsideration; parties settled by Compromise and Release before final Board decision.
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 disability ratingDefendant prevailedupper extremities
The WCJ found permanent partial disability of 31.5%, but applicant contended for permanent total disability; the Board affirmed the WCJ's finding and denied reconsideration.
From the decision · page 1I. applicant, petitioned for reconsideration of the Findings and Award issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on April 13, 2021. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant's injury to her upper extremities arising out of and in the course of her employment during a cumulative period ending November 12, 2000, as an assembler by defendant, Interiors, Inc. dba Windsor Art, Inc., then insured for workers' compensation liability defendant, Safety National Insurance Company (SNIC), caused permanent partial disability of 31.5% and need of further medical treatment. Applicant contends in her Petition for Reconsideration that the WCJ erred in not finding that applicant's injury caused permanent total disability. SNIC filed an answer contending that the petition for reconsideration should be denied. The WCJ issued a report in which he recommended that applicant's Petition for Reconsideration be denied. Subsequently, at our request the parties participated in a commissioners' settlement conference and agreed to resolve this matter by Compromise and Release.