What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration denied.
Petition for Reconsideration filed by defendant and denied by the Appeals Board after review of the WCJ report and record.
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 Board found that repairs to a handicapped modified van are medical treatment under Labor Code 4600 and that the evidence supported reimbursement as reasonably required to cure or relieve the effects of the injury.
From the decision · page 5Petitioner contends that the WCALJ erred in finding that van repairs are medical treatment. The undersigned disagrees and finds plenty of support in the case law for the proposition that this is a form of medical treatment that can be awarded under the provisions of the Labor Code.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
The van is a handicapped modified van accommodating the applicant's large electronic wheelchair, which he needs due to the accepted injury causing quadriplegia.