What the panel ordered
Amended Findings and Award of May 24, 2021, rescinded; matter returned to WCJ for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
Petition for reconsideration of the Amended Findings and Award issued by the WCJ on May 24, 2021, granted for further study and settlement conference; matter returned to WCJ for consideration of Compromise and Release.
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's permanent disability rating was challenged but the matter was not decided on the merits; instead, the case was returned to the WCJ for further proceedings on the Compromise and Release.
From the decision · page 1applicant petitions for reconsideration of the Amended Findings and Award issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on May 24, 2021. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant, while employed during the period of January 1, 2006, through February 9, 2012, by defendant, State Compensation Insurance Fund, sustained injury arising out of and in the course of the employment to his psyche and lumbar spine and consisting of hypertension, coronary disease, sexual dysfunction and diabetes, resulting in need for medical treatment and permanent partial disability of 65%.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
Applicant sustained injury to psyche and lumbar spine including hypertension, coronary disease, sexual dysfunction and diabetes during employment from January 1, 2006 to February 9, 2012.
Favours neutral
This injury and its permanent disability rating were the subject of the reconsideration petition.
From the decision · page 1applicant petitions for reconsideration of the Amended Findings and Award issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on May 24, 2021. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant, while employed during the period of January 1, 2006, through February 9, 2012, by defendant, State Compensation Insurance Fund, sustained injury arising out of and in the course of the employment to his psyche and lumbar spine and consisting of hypertension, coronary disease, sexual dysfunction and diabetes, resulting in need for medical treatment and permanent partial disability of 65%.
The rules the panel named
Authorities as the decision cited them, with how this panel applied each one.
Labor Code
Labor Code
The permanent disability rating issue was considered under the Labor Code.
From the decision · page 1applicant petitions for reconsideration of the Amended Findings and Award issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on May 24, 2021. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant, while employed during the period of January 1, 2006, through February 9, 2012, by defendant, State Compensation Insurance Fund, sustained injury arising out of and in the course of the employment to his psyche and lumbar spine and consisting of hypertension, coronary disease, sexual dysfunction and diabetes, resulting in need for medical treatment and permanent partial disability of 65%.
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