What the panel ordered
Findings, Award and Order issued on February 26, 2020, rescinded; Compromise and Release filed March 17, 2021, approved.
Petition for reconsideration of Findings, Award and Order issued by WCJ on February 26, 2020, granted to study factual and legal issues further.
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 WCJ found no new and further disability after the stipulated injury period, but the parties later resolved the claim by compromise and release, which was approved by the Board.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
The parties stipulated on January 7, 2013, that applicant's industrial injury caused permanent partial disability of 55%.
Favours neutral
This established the baseline injury and disability for the claim resolution.
The WCJ found on February 26, 2020, that applicant did not suffer new and further disability after the stipulated injury period.