What the panel ordered
The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board affirmed the Workers' Compensation Referee's decision that the applicant's psychiatric injury claim is barred under Labor Code section 3208.3(h) because the injury was substantially caused by lawful, nondiscriminatory, good faith personnel actions.
Applicant sought reconsideration of the Findings and Order issued by the Workers' Compensation Referee on September 29, 1997, which found no compensable psychiatric injury and ordered applicant to take nothing except reimbursement for medical-legal costs.
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 agreed with the WCR that the applicant's psychiatric injury was substantially caused by lawful, nondiscriminatory, good faith personnel actions, barring compensation under section 3208.3(h).
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The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.