What the panel ordered
Findings of Fact, Award and Order of August 19, 2024 rescinded; matter returned to district office for further proceedings consistent with opinion
Petition for reconsideration of WCJ Findings of Fact, Award and Order filed August 19, 2024; matter returned to district office for further proceedings on Compromise and Release filed October 31, 2025
This docket was decided more than once. Shown here is the latest released decision; we also hold December 2, 2024.
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The WCJ conditionally awarded permanent total disability and attorney's fees, but the WCAB rescinded that decision and returned the matter for further proceedings on a Compromise and Release.
From the decision · page 1Defendant has petitioned for reconsideration of the Findings of Fact, Award and Order issued and served by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on August 19, 2024. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant, while employed on February 5, 2015 by defendant, claims to have sustained injury arising out of and in the course of her employment (AOE/COE) to the left shoulder, left knee, left ankle, feet, psyche, back, hands, arms, "CRPS", right wrist, head, neck left eye, jaw, face, chest, legs, "weight gain and loss", gastro- intestinal, intestinal, and thyroid. In Findings of Fact two (2) and three (3), the WCJ stated that the parties declined to have the court address issues of compensability, parts of the body, and apportionment, and limited the court's issues to whether applicant is 100% permanently totally disabled, and attorney's fees. The WCJ thereafter made a finding that "assuming the case is compensable because of said injury, applicant is permanently totally disabled," and appears to have conditionally awarded applicant permanent disability of 100%, as well as attorney's fees.